3 minutes agoAAK expects the Constitution to return Istog
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The mayor of the municipality of Rahoveci, once also a member of the headship of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Smajl Latifi, is optimistic that his party will lead even one municipality, though it has been nearly a year since holding local elections. Latifi said he expects the Constitutional Court to turn the outcome into [...]
Latifi said he expects the Constitutional Court to return the outcome in favour of Guni Dresaj in Istog, against current President Haki Rugova, allowing them to take the eighth municipality as well.
We've had information that even the municipality of Istog we've got, however, to see what the Constitutional Court is telling us because I know there's a complaint, there's a possibility that it can decide differently from what it is, we know that Mr. Rugova is mayor but let's see what verdict the Constitutional Court is going to issue, Latif told EO.
Latifi also talked about debts that the municipality of Rahovec inherited from the leadership of Idriz Vehapi. He voiced optimism that the municipality will receive government support for exceeding these debts.
Our “commun has accepted financial obligations for 2018 or debt billed at 2 million 240 and several thousand euros. While it has also accepted contractual obligations in various projects for the next six million and 700 thousand euros. We expect the budget revision from the Kosovo Assembly and have addressed, our demands and needs, and in terms of financial obligations that we have accepted for this year”, Latifi said.
“We are confident that some important capital projects which are huge financial assets we can get the assistance and we should get the help of the Government of Kosovo because it is perfectly natural and necessary for me to come up next to our Kosovo municipalities” respectively, Latifi said.
But the municipality that Latifi heads is having trouble completing the works for the city's sports gym, launched since 2008.
We have named it before the elections even in campaigns that the Rahovec sports gym has begun to build in 2008, and now it's been 10 years since it started. The final phase of the work has not been under way for nearly two years, and this is unacceptable, is meaningless and is banal. We have addressed the Ministry of Culture immediately to the Government of Kosovo and the Prime Minister himself and are moving all the stones to connect the contract as soon as possible and start with the final phase of building the gym”.
“E knows that procedures have remained somewhere in the procurement or procurement body in Pristina because, as you know, broad opinion knows it is the ministry's responsibility and not the municipality's, but in our responsibility there are commitments and direct pressure. We are making the pressure directly and we hope that we will soon have contracts with any operators and not block procedures indefinitely as they have been blocked for two years at Minister”, he said.
