This is Kosovo in Kurti's hands for another year. This is another year of deepening crisis. This crisis must be stopped if we want Kosovo to be saved. Therefore, Kurti must go! As soon as possible and as quickly as possible
Write Visar Azemi
Another year has passed with Albin Kurti at the head of state. With the man who was installed there after many years of promises for substantial reforms in every field. In the coming year, he will complete three years in power. Meanwhile, the state that he vowed to radically change, is not that it is not better, but in many ways the situation has worsened.
In the past year, Kosovo has experienced the biggest blow since the end of the war. Due to the fault of those in power, it has been hit by sanctions from the European Union and a deterioration in relations with the United States of America, with which our country will find itself next year. These punitive measures that came from the irresponsibility of those in power, cost the entire country, cost all citizens. We were damaged politically and economically. All this for an arrogance and stubbornness that did not produce any favorable results for Kosovo.
The confrontation with international allies naturally did not bring more sovereignty to the state. The latter did not extend to the entire country. Of the twelve months of the year, almost nine of them found the North of Kosovo under tension. The lack of coordination continues to maintain a fragile situation in that part. Lulzim Hetemi, who was fanatically held in “Big Brother Leposaviqi”, vacated his office after 6-7 months. He is expected to leave his post soon and the situation will return to where it was. Perhaps even worse than it was.
While the country faced a terrorist attack from which Serbia is escaping with impunity, the country's leaders are constantly inciting panic that Kosovo could face new attacks. Such warnings are made at a time when citizens are sinking into poverty. And when many of them, from the beginning of next year, after visa liberalization, may leave the country altogether.
In search of a better life, they can leave Kosovo, where this government doubled the price of electricity in two years. They can leave this country with the lowest salaries in Europe, and with prices of basic products similar to those of the most developed European countries. While their wallets are impoverished and many citizens are unemployed or work under difficult conditions, it is the families and clans of power who are comfortable in state positions and enrich themselves from the state budget.
Someone whose electricity bill has tripled has 1/3 of their salary go to pay it, while Martin Berishaj and Nagip Krasniqi are making millions of euros doing business with the energy mafia. Someone works all week, maybe more than 8 hours a day, for 300-400 euros a month, while the state gives Gani Jakupi a monthly salary of 7.500 euros and pays extra for trips and luxurious lunches and dinners in the Benelux countries.
The state budget was wasted on these salaries this year, while Kurti and his subordinates failed to properly draft even a Salary Law. Over 100 complaints from various public sector entities forced the Ombudsman to take it to the Constitutional Court, which overturned it. It overturned it like many other laws, which this Government does not know how to write and draft without violating the Constitution. Meanwhile, it ends by accusing and lynching the justice systems and the opposition for preventing it from violating the highest legal act of the state.
2023 will be remembered as the year when, precisely for better salaries and conditions, the most elite units of the Kosovo Police protested for the first time. In its twelve months, Albin Kurti's government took care to lynch trade unionists and anyone who expressed dissatisfaction with the treatment by the state. Everyone who did not fit the line of action of this government was accused. And, on the other hand, the boards of state-owned enterprises and institutions were filled with family members and party militants, many of them without professional training.
This year, healthcare did not experience a single bit of progress. In education, the situation worsened and the PISA test, with even weaker results than in previous years, is the best reflection of this misery. None of the promised reforms were carried out. There was no reform in justice either. There was only a tendency to interfere in the work of these bodies. Just a lot of noise about nothing.
Noise like the ruling party has made for a decade about the Association, which this year it accepted, in the most dangerous version for the country. Noise like Albin Kurti has made with the party about the clarification of the Dehari case, whose samples are lost precisely during their government. Noise like for any other in this country, for which the people of this government have the least contribution. And on the other hand, they are causing the most damage.
This is Kosovo in Kurti's hands for another year. This is another year of deepening crisis. This crisis must be stopped if we want Kosovo to be saved. Therefore, Kurti must go! As soon as possible and as quickly as possible!
/ Visar Azemi, member of the LDK Presidency
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