The government “Kurti” bought over 1.3 million euros of official cars in the first six-month of this year

Although this Government has no full mandate, as it has been led by incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti, leaders of various government dictatorships have not been spared at all in terms of budget spending on official cars.

Based on this year's six-month budget report, these ministries have spent considerable financial amounts on the purchase of official cars:

The Ministry of Return and Community has purchased 160,000. Official car

The Regional Development Ministry has purchased $100,000 Official car

The Foreign Ministry has purchased 200,000 dollars of official cars

The Ministry of Finance has purchased$430,000 official car

The Ministry of Agriculture has purchased 44,000 cars for AUV Inspectorate

The Ministry of Environment and Infrastructure has purchased140,000 $ $ car for field testing and candidates

The Interior Ministry has bought $100,000 of official cars

Presidency and Parliament Buyed $33,000 official car

Except for the seven government ministries in office that have spent over 1.3m euros on the purchase of official cars, such spending engine has not escaped the two highest-level institutions: The presidency and the Kosovo Assembly, which have spent more than 332 thousand euros, reports portal “FrontOnline”, broadcast Periscope.

According to the six-month budget report, Kosovo's Assembly in the first half of this year has spent 212 thousand euros on the purchase of official cars, while the President's Office, Vjosa Osmani, has spent 120 thousand euros on official vehicles for protocol delegations.

Kosovo Assembly Has Spended 212 thousand euros for official cars

The President's office has spent 120 thousand euros for purchase of cars for delegations

MP Guri: $1.6 million would have to be spent for economic development, not luxury

Democratic League of Kosovo MP Paris Guri, who sharply criticises Government “Kurti” on luxury expenses, says of FrontOnline that only central institutions -- some ministries, Parliament and Presidency -- have spent nothing less than 1.6m euros on the purchase of official cars during the first half of this year.

The stone has named these expenses unacceptable in the country's current situation.

These luxury expenses, in times of institutional and social crisis, show a culture of governance where the state budget is seen as a means of personal comfort, not as an instrument for the development and well-being of citizens, has declared the Stone for FrontOnline.

He has said that the priorities of institutions should be the urgent needs of citizens.

“Instead of heading towards urgent needs such as lowering the cost of living, creating jobs or improving public services, institutions are squandering public money on unnecessary comforts, has declared the Stone for FrontOnline.

The stone has concluded that these figures would have to promote accountability if we had a campaign democracy.

“in a functional democracy, these figures would bring urgent audits and accounts, the Stone concluded

Gashi: About $1.6 million for luxury cars, abuse of public trust

Kenan Gashi, representative of civil society, has reacted to the spending of the presidency, the Parliament and some ministries for the purchase of official cars, which according to the six-month budget report total over 1.6m euros. Gashi has singled out these expenses as an obvious example of the separation of power from the reality of citizens.

Even if a portion of these purchases can be reasoned on certain needs on the ground, the fact that Kosovo's Assembly and the President's Office spend hundreds of thousands of euros on luxury cars, at a time when the country does not have elected institutions by full mandate, is political and moral scandal, Gashi has declared.

He has said the Assembly almost doesn't function, decision-making is blocked, while the presidency does not offer sufficient transparency on the justification of these expenditures. According to him, instead of the institutions showing responsibility and saving, they choose to use the taxpayers' budget for their privileges, treating public money as private property.

The Assembly almost doesn't work, decisionmaking is blocked, while the presidency does not provide sufficient transparency on the justification of these expenditures. Instead of saving and showing responsibility, these institutions choose to spend the taxpayers' budget for their privileges, treating public money as if it were private property, he said.

Gashi said any euro spent in luxury when citizens face economic hardship is abuse of public trust

Every euro spent on luxury, while citizens face high prices, poor unemployment and public services, it is abuse of public confidence, Gashi concluded.

Professor Missini: About $1.6 million for car purchase is huge expenses

Economics Professor Shkumbin Misini has commented on spending over 1.6m euros on the purchase of cars from central institutions, stressing that they are not related to results achieved and that they are used for personal demands

First of all, there are expenses that do not compete with their results because they are not on mandate, and they are exploited for their personal demands, Missini said.

According to him, these expenditures are made by persons who are not in the mandate and are in positions of taskkeepers, in a period when the country does not have functional institutions. He estimates that there has been neither activity nor results to justify these costs, naming them as staggering, unwarranted, and without legitimacy

They're amazing because they're task guides and there are no institutions. There is neither activity nor result, and there are expenses of over 1.6m euros, whatever duties they have had. Expenses are staggering, with no results and no legitimacy, the economy professor said. /Periscope/