Work before local elections, electoral strategy or real commitment?

As local elections approach, current municipal leaders intensify efforts to complete infrastructure projects initiated earlier. But they deny that this added commitment is linked to 12 October.

Local elections are approaching them, even a new wave of work in the country's municipalities.

The municipalities have been activated in completing projects, showing results in the field, from asphalt to construction and not alone.

In the municipality of Obilic, the road linking downtown with the village of Mazzi has remained miserable for months until it is expected to be completed in a short time.

But engaged operators also have for expanding main roads and completing the second floor of the QKMF.

But that such activism has to do with the approach of local elections, it is denied by the municipality, reports RTV Dukagini, broadcast Periscope.

No, it's choice-related, major projects and two years old. It was the project last year, over a period of two-year”, said Fatmir Berbatovci, Director of Infrastructure in Obilic.

The same flow is seen in the capital, where leaders have mobilized on several projects, such as the back tunnel, completed several days ago, the asphalt of the peripheral roads, and not alone.

But, like in the capital, the increased intensity of the work is denied to be related to local elections.

” The capital's engagement has been unhindered and there is continuity in all areas of municipal institutional life, so it's not the activism or dynamic as a result of local elections, but of planned jobs and adhoc that are born naturally along the” road, said Donat Lusak, spokesman of the municipality.

But the same opinion does not enjoy the opposition of the capital.

This sudden rhythm, for someone who has been identified more with procrastination and complaints for years, is neither a coincidence nor an institutional awake. It's a classic electoral calculator, more like the last “cosmetics” than the long-term vision for the city of”, said Guzim Svechla, head of LV's atomicists.

No different, monitoring organisations say that the background of intensifying remains political and that its effect may have two sides of the currency.

” on one side can temporarily increase support for current heads through the perception of immediate results. But, on the other hand, undermines the long-term trust of citizens in the election process and in the actual functioning of the” institutions, said Meddition Demolli, director of the FOL Movement.

Local elections are held on Sunday, October 12th, as the campaign officially begins on 13 September. /Periscope/