Svechla: Mayors in North to Go to Workplace

The moment the results are certified they are legitimate mayors and will certainly go to their place of work, they will certainly lead those municipalities and certainly have successes but also failures, as every municipal leader throughout Kosovo has and I don't know why this is questionable”, Svecla stressed.

Asked whether Albanian mayors, elected on Sunday to lead northern municipalities that are inhabited by Serb majority, would have police assistance to go to their workplace, the minister has said police have always assisted wherever there is trouble, even in cases of minor problems.

“Absolutely, security forces are there to secure each citizen, especially the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo. What's so extraordinary about it. Every time the mayors have had problems with Kosovo police has been at their disposal. Even for very small problems, even for street stalls Kosovo police are careful that municipal institutions have their support, and that we don't talk about mayors or municipal directors”, the Interior Affairs Minister highlighted on the RTK Prime programme.

He has said that Kosovo police more than ever and better than ever is doing their job in the north. And so we have a lack of previous incidents and a growing sense of security there, but we have results of”, Svechla added.

He has said that resistance in the north has now gone from that citizen to criminal resistance. “We are witnessing how our citizens of Serbian ethnicity have largely refused to make it to the barricades. There were women, men and children earlier at the barricades, until there were only paid structures at the last barricades. So. We've gone from civic resistance to criminal resistance”, Svechla has expressed itself.