During the winter stands the main armchair at BIK, using the Great Mosque for the third term

For 15 years now, for three consecutive mandates, he holds this position, while he cannot leave it because even with the help of Local Councils, he is also aiming at a mandate in elections that have been opened and must be completed by the end of October, KTV reports.

Trava, to gain support and votes even for a mandate, decided to start construction works on the Great Mosque in Pristina.

His move has raised sharp reactions.

Theologian Mustafa Bajrami has written that illegal Mufti Ternava is misleading Muslim believers because without even getting permission from the municipality, he has declared the work open for the mosque's construction.

It's a bad trick. And this provisional fraud is coming at the recommendation of Kosovo's so-called mufti. He's playing with Muslim feelings. He, through this game, is insisting that Kosovo's fourth mufti be elected again and illegally and usurped. Earlier he sent employees of the Islamic Community to the free pilgrimage so that they can then vote for mufti”, Mustafa Bajrami, the theologian, has said.

At the same time, Jabbi Hamiti views Ternava's candidacy as pangopas.

This organisational structure, unfortunately, has no choice or solution in this institution. The mosque, as well as no other shrine should serve anybody's daily politics, because the purpose then passes into hypocrisy and comes out of the soybeans of sincerity and spirituality”, Hamiti said.

This doesn't stand, according to BIK.

In the Pristina municipality, they say BIK has only received permission for construction conditions, but there is still no construction permit, therefore, according to them, cannot begin building the site.

To allow himself a third term, Mufti Ternava had also been busy in 2013. He had managed to change the internal election statute, which until that year did not allow him to lead this religious institution more than two mandates.