The signing of the petition for the dismissal of the Albanian mayors in North Mitrovica and Leposaviq begins

2024-01-17 08:17:40Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The signing of the petition for the dismissal of the Albanian mayors in North

In North Mitrovica and Leposaviq, from today citizens can sign the petition to dismiss the mayors of the municipalities from among the Albanian community. The collection of signatures will start at 09:00. In North Mitrovica, the petition is launched after the municipal assemblymen approved the initiator's request that the collection of signatures be done in the sports hall in this municipality in the north of Kosovo, inhabited by a majority of Serbs.

Meanwhile, in Leposaviq, according to one of the initiators of the petition, Veselli Radovic, permission has been obtained to use the space in front of the municipality for collecting signatures. Sanja Kërtiniç, one of the initiators of the request for the launch of the petition in North Mitrovica, through the media announced the citizens to take with them the necessary documents for signing the petition.

She invited the citizens to sign the request for the dismissal of the current mayor of the municipality, calling on the directors of the institutions that are financed by Serbia and the employees of these institutions, who have residence in North Mitrovica, to take their identity cards with them and sign the petition. . According to some sources of Radio Free Europe, messages with such appeals to sign the petition were sent to the workers of the Hospital Clinical Center in North Mitrovica, teachers, workers of municipal institutions working under the Serbian system, as well as those who left institutions of Kosovo in 2022, but from now on they are paid from the budget of Serbia.

Employees of various institutions in North Mitrovica are expected to go organized to the sports hall to sign the petition. Employees have been called on social networks to be there at 09:00. Radio Free Europe has learned that the leaders of the parallel institutions have told the workers who are on winter vacation and are not in North Mitrovica, that they can sign the petition until January 21.

Next week, the collection of signatures is expected to start in Zveçan and Zubin Potok. The mayors in the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo, which are inhabited by a majority of Serbs - North Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zveçan and Zubin Potok - are Albanians, after the parties and the Serbian population boycotted last year's local elections. Signatures for their removal are now being collected based on the Administrative Instruction of the Government of Kosovo, which was approved at the beginning of September 2023. In order for the petition to be successful, it is required to collect at least 20 percent of the signatures from the number total of registered voters.

According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), in North Mitrovica, at least 3,640 signatures must be collected for the dismissal of the mayor of the municipality, since 18,199 people with the right to vote are registered in the electoral list. In the municipality of Leposaviq, 13,441 people have the right to vote, which means that at least 2,689 of them must sign the petition for the dismissal of the mayor.

In Zubin Potok, at least 1,347 voters must respond to the petition, which is 20 percent of the 6,732 registered voters. In Zveçan, for the petition to be successful, it must be signed by at least 1,411 people.


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