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part of political party lists or public or municipal officials 
53 Corporate Governance and Transparency of PEs, Riinvest 
Institute 2012
54 Dardan Abazi, INDEP, interview 19/02/2014
in the last 36 months before applying and being select-
ed for the position.
A major impact on the selection and appointment of 
board members, remains with small groups of political 
interest which through the composition of the boards 
intend to impact the decision making process in their 
favor. These concerns were raised years ago by the 
Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Develop-
ment (KIPRED)
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and RIINVEST Institute
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stating that 
in most cases board members are people close to the 
ruling parties. The PTK chairman elected in 2009 and 
re-elected in 2013, was one of the most controversial 
directors after having been part of the list of PDK in 
parliamentary elections in 2009. Mr. Abazi stressed 
that the performance of the board of PTK is evaluated 
negatively, so he considers his re-election as an urgent 
step
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. The law does not specify the mandate of direc-
tors, so this should be addressed in case of an amend-
ment of the law as well. This influence of groups with 
political and economic interest will prevail as long as 
the recruitment process is managed and monitored by 
office of the Secretary General in the office of the Prime 
Minister. The Law on PEs lacks adequate treatment of 
political influence of candidates for board members.
After the discussion about the report on the perfor-
mance of PEs for 2012 in the Kosovo assembly, the 
report was further sent to the Commission for Economic 
Development, Infrastructure, Trade and Industry to ad-
dress the issues which haas come up with recommen-
dation on how the Law on PEs should be changed
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. This 
is confirmed by Mr. Ramadan Sejdiu and Mr. Abazi, who 
were part of the discussion. Mr. Abazi considers that 
relative to the assembly’s capacities it has contributed 
considerably to the improvement of transparency and 
accountability of PEs.