The news website reports that the draft budget for 2017 is being kept “hostage” by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) at the parliamentary committee for budget and finance. Although, Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) representatives said they have agreed to pass the draft budget, a PDK MP has a different position. Shukri Buja, a member of the parliamentary committee on budget and finance, told the news website that the PDK has yet to make a final decision to vote in favor of the current version of the budget. Buja said the only chance of voting in favor is to change the current draft law. “I am not in a position to vote in favor of the current draft law. If changes are made, then we can vote in favor in parliament but not in the current version,” Buja said. He also said that “numerous flaws in the current draft law will harm the Republic of Kosovo”. “Loans, debts, the failure to resolve the issue of the war veterans, a budget that is not focused on development but is rather a ‘budget of asphalt’, we cannot support it,” Buja added.