Energy price hike, Gerjaliu: Economic shock and victory for the energy mafia

The average rate of tariffs for all consumer categories based on Maxual License is about 16%”, said ZRE in the media report.

But, according to economy connoisseur Safet Gerjaliu, increased electricity prices have chain effects, charging that this serves energy mafia in the Balkans.

The fact that the greatest concern must be what everyone has talked about rising the price of electricity, but no one has talked about producing electricity, and that's what I believe is the biggest change. In the second row, this rise in the electricity price testifies once again to the victory of Balkan mafia in Europe, and in particular in the Balkans and Kosovo. It means today at this price is definitely a blow which will affect both the citizen and the economy, and in particular the private production sector, and above all, a rise occurred at a time when Kosovo is without institution or Government in office and without parliament”, he has said in a proposal for Periscope.

The former director of the Kosovo Economic Ode has also told about the effects on the economy and on the citizen basket.

“will be a new source of inflation in Kosovo. An inflation that will affect price hikes and other products that will distort a form of chain index. And with that direction from the rise in the price of electricity directly, there will be impact and increased prices of other products. But to keep in mind that in Kosovo we have had elections and we have had electoral promises of salary growth, we have not really had increases in wages will make it even harder for the citizens' standard of living. A reality that everyone has in Kosovo should not be accepted. Because, Kosovo has become a poor state, and today the life of a group of rich people is thought to be all in Kosovo rich, he has suggested.

Gerxhaliu has also criticised local and international institutions for failing to measure poverty in Kosovo correctly. He added that this expensive will have a negative impact.

However, the truth is that the situation is much more disturbing than thought, and deliberately neither local institutions nor the World Bank nor the Monetary Fund never came up with a key indicator for measuring the level of Kosovo's life as the scale of extreme poverty. Therefore, there will really be negative impact”, Gerjaliu said.

In contrast, a large number of citizens today have protested the costing of electricity, and they have even warned other protests. /Periscope/