Eurasia Press & News
Kosovo’s deputies have not stopped smoking in Kosovo’s Parliament, setting an example of how to breach the law.
Although smoking in offices and institutions, including Kosovo’s Parliament, has been banned for three years, three deputies of the Parliamentary Commission for Budget and Finance have been spotted smoking in one of the smaller halls of the assembly.
Gani Koci, deputy of the ruling Democratic party who is also head of this Commission, was the first to smoke, and he was followed by Hajdin Abazi and Besa Gaxheri.
“Why are you filming us?”, Koci asked reporters. “You can record our voices but not the smoking”, he added. In this way, deputies breached the law implemented by them three years ago.
Deputy Besa Gaxheri admitted that they broke the law. “We breached that law. The head of the Commission started it, and then we did the same thing”.
A clause in the anti-smoking law of Kosovo says that “any person smoking in the workplace is to be fined with a five per cent reduction of his/her annual salary”.
