Albanian candidates for mayor in the country's north: Safety First

Periskopi

7 April 2023, 19:42(3 years ago)

On April 23rd is the date of elections in the four northern municipalities, due to the resignation months ago of the mayors coming from the Serbian List. For these elections, 5 political subjects have been certified with 11 candidates for 4 municipalities in the north: Northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Leposaviq and Zubin Potok. Izmir Zeqiri, presidential candidate [...]

Izmir Zeqiri, the candidate for mayor of Zubin Potok from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said the process is going well and we are now being consolidated so that they are ready for work in the field.

“With the burning of cars in the north, warns there may be problems during the elections in the north, but we will prepare and carry out the work under the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo. As for the Albanian ethnicity campaign, we have no problems, problems will be where Serbs are mainly. It's problematic to hold gatherings in the center of Zupi Potok, but we're going to have a problem for this”, he said.

Zeqiri also spoke of his programme, which said the key to Zubin Potok's municipality is security and that he and his party will do everything they can to offer it.

The “already has some security maintained by the Kosovo Police, even though it is not complete, because there are problems among the Serb community. I believe that with the return or the acceptance of new Serbian policemen at work, this will improve. Because Serbs, who obey the state of Kosovo, are threatened and have nowhere to complain”, Zeqiri said in RTK.

And Betim Osmani, the candidate for northern Mitrovica, from the Mitrovica Civic Initiative, on the <x0 show. Info plus”, said he believes the election process will go well.

“Mitrovica is more specific, easier than three other cities, for holding elections, we have better reports among all ethnicities and I believe everything will go well”, Osmani said.

According to him, North Mitrovica and three other municipalities in the country's north have been neglected in these 24 years after the war.

Nothing has been invested, even though they have talked too much. Students in northern Mitrovica still learn in container, the hospital in northern Mitrovica only works for Serbs. The Serbian list has choked its community. We as the initiative of citizens are multiethnic: Albanians, Bosniak people have left seats on the lists even for the Serb community”, Osmani said.

He claimed that they have meetings with all ethnicities in the north, and that they have expressed their sorrows even to the ombudsman.