{"id":39978,"date":"2026-06-01T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kurti-is-asked-what-he-is-proud-of-over-800-km-of-roads-through-villages-we-had-to-lift-people-out-of-poverty\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:30:13","slug":"kurti-is-asked-what-he-is-proud-of-over-800-km-of-roads-through-villages-we-had-to-lift-people-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/kurti-is-asked-what-he-is-proud-of-over-800-km-of-roads-through-villages-we-had-to-lift-people-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurti is asked what he is proud of: Over 800 km of roads through villages, we had to lift people out of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kurtiii.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The head of the LVV, Albin Kurti, who intends not to move from power, was asked about the capital projects during his government for six years.<\/p>\n<p>In the last interview, the acting prime minister was asked to count these projects that he is proud of, but it is not that he had much to say.<\/p>\n<p>He asked not to be compared &#8220;with the mentality of those (former governments),&#8221; because &#8220;I have worked to lift people out of poverty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kurti said that his motto &#8220;employment and justice&#8221; has made his governing success &#8220;no, highways, like them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said this despite international data: the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank rank Kosovo as the poorest country after Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same data, 33.7% of the population remains below the threshold comparison of 8 dollars a day, while over 10% remain in extreme poverty, figures many times higher than in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Kurti said that capital investments have not been his orientation and that he does not see them as an end in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for him an expenditure that creates jobs is important, adding &#8220;We have created 85 thousand jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further, in his statement in Kanal10, the chairman of VV also said that &#8220;Highways are very useful, they have been super expensive, unfairly, with many corrupt elements that should result in indictments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, as an achievement, he emphasized that &#8220;What we have done: over 800 kilometers of roads in the villages and another 870 km have been laid, of which 100 km are in the north of Kosovo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investments I explained to them what the next mandate will be: dams, railways, gasification, mines. Now we have to lift people out of poverty,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the LVV, Albin Kurti, who intends not to move from power, was asked about the capital projects during his government for six years. In the last interview, the acting prime minister was asked to count these projects that he is proud of, but it is not that he had much to say. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":16,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39980,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39978\/revisions\/39980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}