The economics and new jobs are seeing only Iron Murati

Shatri, based on the data of the Kosovo Statistics Agency, says Murati's claim of over 70,000 new jobs is nothing but propaganda, as the ASS figures show no growth, but the reduction of jobs, according to him.

I don't see where those seven thousand new jobs are. Perhaps only a segment of the information is being extracted just to campaign and advertise that they have done something. Statistics show that in the production sector in 2022, the number of employees has declined, and Murati has read the same statistics, but he has seen growth, perhaps also sharing the glasses”, Shatri said of the Albanian Post.

The increase, according to Schitri, who argues based on the data of the Kosovo Statistics Agency, has been only at the time when the Kosovo Government has separated tools from the budget to compensate workers with a salary in the private sector.

I repeat that I have not seen in statistics growth figures in 2022 compared to 2021, increase only in the time of workers' formalization. Otherwise these new jobs would have to reflect on an added product activity, which did not happen”, he added.

That the figures presented by the finance minister are propagandistic efforts to present a thriving situation in Kosovo's economy, says Department for Finance Co-ordinator from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Arben Mustafa.

According to the new employment Mustafa, there may have been, but they do not necessarily represent new jobs, as some of these new employment may be replacements for those who are migrating abroad.

“This is how the economy seems to be seen only by him and the prime minister, who instead of work seem to have chosen propaganda as an easy way to fill their government mandate”, wrote Mustafa on his social network on Facebook.

“The finance minister speaks of productivity, while the growth rate of about 3 per cent is lower than the average of the last ten years, while the trade deficit of 4.3 billion euros has reached the highest rate ever noted. The question is where is this product going that the Minister is mentioning?

The figures for new jobs had been promoted as better evidence than the Government's programme for restoring the economy towards production is functioning.

According to Mustafa, however, the government has ideas to create long-term conditions for sustainable economic development and increased living standards in the country.

For the end, the word most used in posting the Ministry of Finance was the word subsidy. This shows that the main economic policy of this government is subsidies, that is, the use of citizen and business taxes to give money to some citizens and businesses”.

While experts, as well as citizens of Kosovo, estimate that the economic situation in the country is heavy, initially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then the crisis from the war in Ukraine, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, saw another reality.

The prime minister in October last year declared that for a year and a half of his government, it had enabled the opening of 400,000 new jobs.

However, even what Prime Minister Kurti was referring to as opening up new jobs during his mandate was not as being entrusted with connoisseurs of economic affairs in the country.

Such, they said, was the formalization of the economy, but not the 400,000 new jobs exclusively.