VV counts 12 slanders to Arba Abrash: You're making them out of ignorance.

Pristina municipality deputy head Dardan Sejdiu has said the LDK candidate for Pristina chairman is unaware.

At a media conference, Sejdiu has said that in the absence of knowledge of the Arba Abashi programme in all interviews he has said nothing but to slander. According to him, in just two interviews, Abrashi has been given 12 slanders.

Sejdiu said Pristina has not lost a cent, and that it has spent the entire budget shared by the government, thus responding to Abrashi's statement, which has said the municipality has lost 80m euros.

The first “says " 2014-2017" has lost over 80 million euros. For four years for your information Pristina has not lost a cent, has spent the entire budget shared by the government and spent all the money collected from taxes. So, both the general grant and the specific grant and the personal revenues that are all spent. The second, says 2013 budget infrastructure has been around 40 per cent for operational spending. One, the concept of operational spending in the municipal budget does not exist. Maybe it's good to read the budget and it's 60 percent capital expenses. While the same one says in 2017 it changes to 60 per cent operational spending, once again I am stating there is no operational spending”, he said.

Sejdiu has also accused Abrashin of slander as to what he said was about the number of businesses. He said that since their arrival to power the number of businesses operating in Pristina has increased.

“A large number of businesses have expressed concerns and have been forced to move out of Pristina as in Fushe Kosovo, Lipjan, Gracanica due to large taxes they have on their properties. This is the next slander. In fact, the municipality of Pristina, what the largest number of businesses registered in the Republic of Kosovo and since 2013 since we started governance with the Pristina municipality, the number of businesses operating in the Pristina municipality has increased, and the demand for construction permits has increased. If you enter the Kosovo statistical yearbook, national statistics in this country and look at the numbers and see that 2 thousand and 231 businesses opened in Pristina in 2016. While in Fushe Kosovo their number is dropping”, Sejdiu said.

Vice President Sejdiu has also given answers to the number of people employed in education in Pristina. He said they hired those who had a higher average, not those who are members of the authorities.

<x) In fact, the number of employees in the Pristina municipality is in education of about 300 and the proportion of employees from Pristina and other municipalities is the same as it was in 2012, 2011, 2010. The difference is different where, the difference is that those we hired have had a higher average, are not the family of the governments, but, based on merit have become education workers in the Pristina municipality”, Sejdiu said.

He also commented on Abrashi's statement about the new buses he said were not new, where, as Sejdiu said, buses were produced in 2016 and produced by the second largest company in the world.

Sejdiu suggested that Abrashu face a debate with counterCandidat from his Vetevendosje party and not come up with “spije” like this.

VV candidate Spend Ahmeti and LDK candidate Arban Abrashi will face another November 19th in Pristina chairman's second round