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LVV recounts the negotiated contracts and provides details on the electricity contracts
The parliamentary group of the Vetëvendosje Movement has given details regarding the debate on the negotiated contracts, with special emphasis on the electricity contracts, where they emphasized that the whole debate was a battle or resistance of the energy mafia from Serbia to restore the Kosovo market which has lost
But this year here, the whole debate that has been reflected, I judge that it was a battle or resistance of the energy mafia from Serbia to restore the market of Kosovo, which it has obviously lost", Deputy of the Vetëvendosje Movement, Armend Muja in a press conference, said that they received data from the KRPP, which is based on the auditor's data, where it can be seen that the number of negotiated contracts has marked a significant decrease during the Kurti government, compared to the years others.
He said that even in terms of value, the ministries signed 11 million euros of contracts by the end of October, three times less than in 2019.
"In 2023 there were 59 contracts, in 2021 there were 1010, in 2018- 136, in 2015- 155, in 2014- 179, in 2013-203 and the record was 206 contracts in 2010. These are from the data of KRPP.... So far, on October 30, the ministries have signed 11 million euros of contracts, which is three times less than in 2019, where there were 42 million euros with that number of contracts, then the year 2016-35 million euros, the year 2011-46 million euros , so in the last two years we have halved the value of the contracts signed by the ministries or in 2024 we may have three times less value of contracts, compared to previous years", he said.
During the conference, Muja emphasized that compared to the previous years when other parties were in power, the import and export of electricity from Serbia has significantly decreased.
Muja Duku referred to the data of the Customs of Kosovo, showed that the amount of imported electricity from 2008-2023, excluding the two years 2009-2010 for which the data was not available, was 901 million euros.
"The value of energy and electricity imported until 2023 was 900 million or 901 million euros... 369 million euros was imported from Slovenia, 223 million euros from Serbia, 81 million euros from North Macedonia, 61 million euros from Greece and 58 million euros from Albania... In blue is the trend of the total import of electricity from the country of origin. From the 100th quarter 2008 to 2018, it reflects a dominance of Serbia as the country of origin of electricity imports. From 2019, green reflects the dominance of Slovenia as a source, country of electricity import. In recent years, as can be seen, almost nothing is imported from Serbia. In fact, Kosovo's imports were from Slovenia, Denmark, North Macedonia, and no electricity is imported from Serbia. But this year here, the whole debate that has been reflected, I judge that it was a battle or resistance of the energy mafia from Serbia to restore the Kosovo market, which it obviously lost", he said.
According to him, from 2013 to 2023, Kosovo has exported around 250 million euros of electricity.
"We have exported between 2013 and 2023, 274 million euros of electricity. The country where we have exported electricity is Serbia with 115 million euros. then, Slovenia with 42 million euros, Denmark 33 million euros, Albania 11 million euros. Even among electricity experts or the battle for KEK's surpluses at night and the country of origin is as you can see from 2013 to 2018, we have complete dominance of Serbia as a country where KEK's surplus energy was exported, from year 2018 a decline, there is a tendency to return, destination country of KEK's surpluses in 2020, but as you can see, Serbia is not site of KEK surpluses. All this imported and exported energy is done through direct contracts, we have found the contracts from 2008 with EFT Group of Vuk Hamovic, Rutnap of Damir Fazliqi, Energia of Sfetozat Bullatovic. These are the three people who have dominated the export and import of electricity until 2020. I have these contracts available for you here, they were signed by Njazi Thaçi", he said, adding that the same person signed the contracts with Geni.
The other LVV deputy, Enver Haliti, said that he called the single-source contracts propaganda of the opposition parties and analysts who support the latter.
He said that from 2021 until now, about 43 percent of the negotiated contracts are within the municipalities of Kosovo.
Prishtina, Malisheva, Gjakova and Ferizaj. Haliti said that the municipalities have about 165 negotiated contracts, while the government and ministries have seen a decrease. He also gave details about the contracts in the Ministry of Interior. "As for the ministries where the opposition has debated, we have said that from 2021 to 2024, those contracts that were signed through negotiation are related to the supply of passports, the purchase of Microsoft for the public administration, which were impossible to procure in other ways. Whereas, at the Ministry of Agriculture", he said. According to him, the Ministry of Defense has been criticized for food, but he emphasized that single-source contracts for food have turned into contracts for the purchase of armaments.