Lirak Cellaj unhappy with government in the capital

Celaj emphasises that he has decided to enter the race for head of the capital to change Pristina's way of governing.

In an interview for KosovoPress, the contender for the post of head of the capital charges current but previous governance, for not developing the city, not investing and division of citizens on party grounds.

According to Celij, current chairman Shpend Ahmeti over four years of leadership has dealt with global issues and in the service of his party rather than in the service of citizens. He says Pristina needs a mayor to serve citizens, regardless of which party it comes from, who has proposed it or who has voted it.

My main goal that I have decided to accept this challenge is because I want to change Pristina's way of governing. The way Pristina is conceived today just to be spent, to perform elementary services, I think it's been that time. Pristina is completely transformed and possible. Many people have lost hope that Pristina can change, and my goal is to change Pristina. The second reason is that as a citizen of Pristina I have felt discriminated against because the mayors who have so far been brought as head of political subjects and not as mayor of cities, especially the last one to act as head of political subject and have divided citizens into those with Vetevendosje and those who are not with Vetevendosje”, Celiaj said.

Being for an alysamist mandate in the Pristina municipal assembly, Celaj says it has helped him greatly to understand the manner of governance and municipal specifications, so it takes priority in the race for the head of Pristina, as it is familiar with citizens' problems.

According to him, Shpend Ahmeti dealt more with the prime ministers of the countries of the region -- global issues -- and party issues from where it came -- than with the problems and concerns of citizens. It even says that the municipality became home from where shares began to destroy the city.

The citizen I think has been disappointed and the citizen's vote has been betrayed. You know how different there was to vote against his political subject by sending messages that they believed in him, seeing him as not too involved in his political subject. While, you know that in the second round, The PDK has been one of the largest supporters to have influenced Shpend Ahmeti to win, and he has betrayed them and acted as chairman of Vetevendosje. This is the foundation of the failures, and then he's serving both his personal ambitions to the central level, but ambitions against his political subject and we can say that the Pristina municipality that turned into a VV headquarters, so that's where violent action was launched in town, that's where the destruction of the citizen started, which is a case for my absurd opinion that the mayor of the city led the protests to cause <x1 in the city”, he stressed.

Candidate of PDK for chairman of Pristina says the principle of its governing programme will be the change of capital and identity, since Pristina currently has nothing to identify with.

Celaj says that in his governing programme, traffic will have priority, with single-way roads. Likewise, parking lots will be focused. Priories, Celaj stresses that economic development will also be possible until Gollak sees it as potential for this, as there are potential for agriculture development. Until, according to him, construction will be stimulated but this will all be done in a controlled manner and by rules.

Celaj has also talked about the rule of Shpend Ahmeti and his failures during that mandate. He cites projects promised by Ahmeti and does not realise them during this mandate. Therefore, he calls the government tired, the governance of Shpend Ahmeti, who alone has had the comfort of party militants, not only from Pristina, but from other cities to keep the party alive.

Let me stress one of the areas I think I've noticed that citizens most concerned is the furniture, the movement of citizens around the city. There's been a lot of talk and there's been a lot of noise about the bus that's a farce of its kind that has many questions, many things behind it, and we're still facing huge traffic today, there's no trails for bicyclists, urban traffic despite coming in doesn't work because there's no separate tape, there are no targeted stations, there's no integrated ticket, there's no design of new lines because Pristina has grown, and it's supposed to be revised the entire route. Do not build parking lots that are important or city rings that would download traffic into the city. All of this has contributed to a chaos in the city and a nervousness in citizenship”, he said.

In fact, according to Celaj, the model of the government of Shpend Ahmeti is seen in the Urriz platform in Dardania district, where it started to renew 27 months ago, until the deadline has been under way for 6 months.

In this interview, Celaj has also spoken of allegations of abuse in the Pristina municipality under the leadership of Shpend Ahmeti and criminal charges that have begun to deal with those abuses, which he says have facts and that they expect results from the prosecution.

We've thought that public reporting would motivate the prosecution to deal with them because there is a rule that when making public statements should be handled by the prosecution, the facts should be taken. I absolutely believe in those facts, everything's argued, so we've never had any exposure to this subject until today because they haven't had what they've been exposing, because we've all said we have based on facts, and if the prosecution doesn't fear so far, it should have been frozen criminal charges. Except for me at least one case I know that Shpend Ahmeti was interviewed for the rolling district, I don't know the other case that the prosecution has intervened, and we've repeatedly accused the justice bodies of fearing Vetevendosje because they're making public links and they're fearing”, he said.

When three weeks remain until the official start of the campaign, Celaj wants a constructive debate to be held and to deal with topics and issues that directly affect citizens and their lives, not on accusations that do not go in favour of the Kostinians.