Mahati: The contract is signed contrary to legislation in force

He has suggested that the signing of this 18m-euro contract has been made without having the necessary separate budget.

In his account in “Facebook”, Murati wrote that such a thing is in conflict with legislation in force.

“The tender's announcement and the signing of the 18m-euro contract for George Bush Square from the Pristina municipality has been made without the necessary separate budget, which is contrary to the legislation in force. For any procurement procedure, the Bank's Declaration of Access to Funds is required to be signed, which ensures that the organisation, in this case, has sufficient budgeted funds. The Declaration of Access signed in 2024 by Pristina Mayor and Chief Financial Officer, reportedly the means needed for this project are 18.4m euros, and that they are budgeted in the 53984 code. The arrangement of the Square “George Bush”.” wrote the Murati, providing other details.

The problem lies in the fact that in the code of the project in question, in 2024 only 1.89m euros have been budgeted by the personal means carried by the previous year. So the Pristina municipality has initiated procurement procedure worth 18.4m euros, having only 1.89m euros budgeted, or 1/10 of the needed budget. Meanwhile, following the development of the procurement procedure, the contract was signed this year, which constitutes the next violation because the Pristina Community budget, although approved in the assembly, due to late approval, has not yet been adopted in the Republic's Assembly to integrate as completion/changing of the Law for Business Division 202518x1>, the Murati wrote.

Among other things, he has said that the Law on Budget for 2025 does not contain the construction of this site at all.

In other words, the budget law currently in force for 2025 does not contain the George Bush Square project at all, so there is a 0 euro budgetary division, but that the Pristina Community has signed the contract despite a lack of budgetary division. Such cases of involvement in uncovered financial obligations constitute violations of the public finance law as well as the public procurement law, and endanger the municipal financial sustainability. I would like to believe that law enforcement would have the zeal needed to handle this gross case of legal violation”, he wrote.