Pristina unhappy with the work of directors in Komuna

41.09 percent of the martinians are satisfied or very satisfied with the work of Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti since beginning his second term, while 24.69 percent of those who are dissatisfied with his work.

While a negative assessment is due to the work of municipal directors, only 32.68 percent of the martinians are dissatisfied or very unhappy with the work of municipal directors.

This data has been released in the report “The capacity of citizens to be satisfied with municipal services in Pristina”, a report made by the IPO Progress Initiative.

As far as municipal services are concerned, the capital's residents have the greatest dissatisfaction with the state of roads, sidewalks, and lack of parking lots.

The presentation of the INPO report made researcher Shpend Mustafa, who said that the arithmetic average of pleasure with all municipal services is 39.81 percent of citizens, while of less than 31.13 percent satisfaction.

“With the work of the mayor of the pleased municipality are 32.43 per cent of the citizens of the Pristina municipality, and 9.46 per cent are declared to be very satisfied, neutral positions have 29.61 per cent of citizens. And, disappointed are 19,53 percent of citizens, 5.16 percent of citizens are declared to be very unhappy with the work of mayor since he received the second mandate... With the work of disgruntled municipal directors there are 28.01 percent of citizens surveyed in the Pristina municipality and very unhappy 4.67 percent of citizens. 16.67 percent are declared to be satisfied, and 1.97 percent who are very pleased” made it known.

Index data shows that municipal services such as quality of education, sports activities, support of sports clubs, youth activities, the situation and maintenance of roads, sidewalks, public parking lots, green spaces, sewers, urban and rural planning dominate on the list of citizens' discontent.

While, the greatest disappointments of citizens are in the absence of parking lots, the space of free movement on sidewalks, and the state of road in the capital.

“We have 26.04 percent of citizens who are declared satisfied and 1.72 percent of the citizens who are very pleased with it, neutral positions have 25.92 percent of citizens. And 28.50 percent and 17.44 percent of citizens are declared dissatisfied and very unhappy with the situation of the streets of the municipality... With the sidewalks in the Pristina municipality, we have 34.28 percent of citizens who are declared dissatisfied and 29.73 percent who claim very disgruntled, where the total percentage of unappeasiness with sidewalks is 64.01 percent... For public parking lots we have 39.43 percent of citizens who declare themselves disgruntled and 38.57, where the total percentage of discontent is 7800 per cent of citizens surveyed”, he revealed the results of the poll.

The NGO INPO report has highly praised Ministry of Local Power Management Secretary Rosafa Ukimeraj.

She also indicated that both the ministry and the ministry are at the conclusion of the municipal performance report for 2017.

Ukimeraj has noted that in the 2016 report Pristina municipality has shown a high performance, where it was in the first tens of better performance municipalities that year.

While, it stated that even in the 2017 report, which has not yet been made public the Pristina municipality is well ranked in performance.

And as far as 2017 is concerned, even though the data is preliminary, I told you we're working on finalizing the report and we're sure to verify this data even with different reports from civil society. But, to this point from data reported by the Pristina municipality, the municipality has shown a high performance in terms of municipal emergency areas, administrative services areas and waste management. Also, drinking water, public transportation, and sanitation. The medium level of satisfaction according to Pristina's 2017 municipality performance report has shown a medium performance in public parking lots, municipal transparency, environmental protection, roads and sidewalks, the area of social welfare”, she said.

INPO's report also commented on the Director of Administration in the Pristina municipality, Muhedin Nushi, who has indicated that there is no difference between that report a year ago.

Nushi said there is no huge decline in satisfaction, but that, according to him, there is a tendency to increase and stability of contentment.

The report, which for this year in parameters, is very similar to last year's report. Those parameters that we estimate we've been successful and normal based on the ratio of citizens where they're not satisfied, mean at certain parameters that give us more information on where to focus in the future. Despite knowing a few concrete things, I mean parking lots that we're working on. The results are very similar or almost identical to that of the Local Management Ministry preliminary report”, he said.

“Index of citizens' pleasure with municipal services in Pristina” is second, since one has become one last year.