Armendi Muja: Plots in the private sector have increased more than prices

Muja says attracting these tools would destroy Kosovo's pension scheme and that LVV will not change its position on Trust.

There will be no change of attitude. We took this position in 2020 even when it was the first and second attraction, just with these reasonings, that if the opportunity arises, the window opens to be pulled away once it creates a dangerous precedent, which generally destroys Kosovo's pension scheme. Kosovo's pension scheme has two pillars. A pensioner has a pillar of 0, which the government normally gives minimally 100 euros to combat poverty and its savings in the pension fund to create a fee to live a normal old age, which has not happened in Kosovo, since in the past our pension fund has been stolen from Serbia, while some have saved enough, and therefore today you have more than 240 thousand pensioners living badly. The savings is not optional”, the MA said about Telegrafi.

Muja stressed that the proposal to withdraw means from the Trust has come with the argument that tools will help citizens, but he asks what category?

If they say this is being done to help citizens, what category is it? The proposal as such when it came has been designed with these cliches that are helping citizens. When we received and studied the proposal, the idea was that Kosovo actually has 1.2 million people capable of work, of which half of them have an account in the Trust. Half of them don't. Five percent of the population can attract something and may have a significance of their expenses. In 2020, when money was attracted, it was a difficult context at the time, because there were economic contractions, a decline in jobs”, he said.

Muja also explained that spending Trust means would exacerbate the country's inflation situation.

He also stressed that according to the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) from January of this year, inflation has increased by 9 percent.

“Spending these means makes the inflation situation worse in the country. This is not a fiscal policy to fight the price. All the attraction is eaten because of inflation. Overexcesses at this time, paradoxically stimulates import, which is transmitted overall to Kosovo and reduces poverty and the worst layers currently. We cannot say that the situation is the same. From January until now it is estimated that inflation has increased 9 percent on average. So says the AK. If you look at private sector salaries, according to the AKS, 13 per cent have increased, which means slightly beyond inflation rate”.

All the costs the government has made, according to LVV deputy, have been made to downplay the inflation effect.

We remember MP Muja has strongly opposed the Trust bill.

The one about this idea was saying that any legal initiative attempting to affect pension savings should be prohibited.

Significantly, Armend Muja receives a monthly salary of over 40,000 euros.