Bajrami retaliates to Murata: He's complaining about how the LDK is letting him break the Constitution.

Former Finance Minister Hykmete Bajrami, at the same time LDK MP, has reacted to current Finance Minister Hekuran Murati, who said that because her party has sent her to the Constitution, “Law to Tavan” for basic products, citizens are paying more for some basic products.

Bajrami said Murati is complaining that LDK is not allowing it to violate the country's Constitution.

According to her, the Law for roof prices does not address inflation issues, and that the same is contrary to Article 10 of the country's Constitution.

The ceiling prices law does not address the inflation issue or the price speculation issue, the Law, which the LDK has attributed to the Constitutional Court, is contrary to the Constitutional Court, respectively, Article 10. The law as such would shut down thousands of family businesses in villages and periphery, creating even more favourable situations for major businessmen”, she said.

According to her, award-based misuses are regulated by the Law for Protection of Competition and Market Inspectors, which, according to her, the Government of Kosovo would have to take effect.

“This country has the Law for the Protection of Competition, has Market Inspectors and has all the mechanisms needed to take measures whenever evidenced that someone is speculating with the dominant position in the market or speculating at prices. All this Government needs is that after two years of break, it starts to work on putting these mechanisms into operation and implementing the laws that are in force”, she said.

Among other things, she said the Government of Kosovo should talk to businesses and listen to their concerns.

The government, too, has to go out on the field and talk to businesses across their yard, with how the price of electricity has affected them, ask for necessary fiscal policies, ask for their operating costs, and how they can be helped to cope with this situation to lower costs and prices, the government must do its job under the mandate granted”, she said.

In October, Industry, Intervention and Trade Minister Rozeta Hajdari had demanded that the law be adopted for provisional measures of basic products.

But, according to the LDK, that law was unconstitutional, and as such, it was sent to the Constitutional Court.