PDK: VV is boycotting the Bureau for Pensions of Police Officials, seeking his snap vote.

MPs from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Ganimete Musliu and Rashit Qalaj, through a media conference, have accused the Vetvendosje Movement's deputies of failing the Police Officials' Pensions Bill on Security and Defence Affairs Commission.

MP Ganimete Musliu said boycotting this bill by the ruling party is happening because the Democratic Party of Kosovo has drafted this bill.

We have come through this conference today to express our deep concern over the three-time failure of the Commission for Security and Defence Affairs to proceed with the No.08/L-160 Bill that regulates the pensions of Kosovo Police Officers and Kosovo Police Inspectorate officers with police authorization. Since November 17th, 2022, with the boycott of the Vetevendosje Movement at three successive meetings, it has not been possible to vote in principle this bill and send the session. This boycott of the ruling party came only out of resentment that this bill for the Kosovo Police has drafted the Democratic Party of Kosovo”, she said.

Musliu announced that four types of pensions have been proposed by this bill: regular, disabled, family and voluntary.

“In addition, conditions and criteria for guaranteeing pensions, pension types will be adjusted and defined, as well as classification of pensions for Kosovo Police Officials and Kosovo Police Inspectorate employees with police authorisations and their family members. Four types of pensions and that: Regular, disabled, family, and volunteer retirement”, she said.

The PDK has called on the Kurti government and Vetevendosje deputies to put political resentment aside and support the adoption of this bill in the Kosovo Assembly.

The recent reference and commitment they have shown is clear indication that we have officials ready to guarantee the functioning of the rule of law in our entire territory. But all they need is the government of Kosovo's irrevocable support to them. The overall failure to meet the needs and requirements of the Kosovo Police so far is disturbing. We demand that urgently and without delay, the government ensure everything it needs, that our officers have the necessary conditions to implement order and law in the northern part of Kosovo”, Musliu stressed.

Meanwhile, MP Rashit Qalaj said the PDK would insist this draft pass.

This law enabled the Kosovo Police to increase its operational capacities always considering that Kosovo police officers in their later years and those with serious retirement diseases get a dignified pension and gradually, with their retirement to recruit new generations of police cadets to Kosovo Police”, Qalaj said.

And so, The PDK wants the Government to think urgently about the life insurance and health insurance of the Kosovo Police.

In addition to the Law on Early Pensioning to think urgently about vital security and health insurance, always given the situation we have today, the police engagement, especially in the northern municipalities of the country, their long-term engagement and in very dangerous conditions for their life and health”, Qalaj stressed.