Kosovo publishes census data in real time, in Albania manipulated statistics are held hostage

The Statistics Agency of Kosovo held yesterday the next conference regarding the progress of the process of Census of Population, Family Economy and Housing in Kosovo. The Director of the Statistics Agency of Kosovo, Avni Kastrati announced that the registration is going as planned, revealing that so far 530 thousand inhabitants have been registered in Kosovo. "Until yesterday, over 530,000 people were registered in Kosovo and 36% of the facilities in Kosovo were registered. We have no major challenges in the field and the staff has stabilized these days and mass interviews have started, as we planned. The registrants have reached the quota that we predicted, up to 7 interviews. If such dynamics continue, we will complete the registration as planned", said Kastrati. But while Kosovo is publishing the results of the census in real time, an extraordinary scandal is brewing in Albania. The national census was conducted in September of last year, but INSTAT says that the data will be published in June of this year. The opposition says that this postponement is done in order to manipulate the data, because the number of Albanians in the country is currently something more than 1.4 million inhabitants. We recall that in the 2011 census, which took place almost at the same time, the results were published in mid-December. As for the last census, due to technological progress, it was expected that the results would come out much faster. However, this postponement of at least 10 months is one of the serious scandals of Edi Rama's government. The opposition says that during this government, more than a third of the population left the country, as has never happened in history, not even in times of war.