The former mayor of Leposavic, Lulëzim Hetemi, has denied the claims of the current mayor, Zoran Todić, that the municipality is in poor condition.
Todić shared a Facebook post video where several irregularities are seen, while it is claimed that they also found the inscription "ROSU" - (Kosovo Special Unit).
However, Hetemi stated to KosovaPress that the municipal administration was handed over in a regular and functional state.
"It's absolutely not true. The municipality is in order, it functions and has functioned. What they did afterwards is their responsibility," he said.
Hetemi announced that the former deputy mayor of the municipality, together with former director Alban Uka, attempted to carry out the handover process with the new mayor, but according to him, this was rejected by the current government. "The former deputy mayor and former director Alban Uka went to the current mayor to handover, but this was rejected by them," Hetemi declared.
Asked if the new president has dismissed the directors appointed by him, Hetemi replied that they left on their own after the new president was sworn in.
"We don't know. We only know that at the moment the oath was taken, I, along with the directors, left. We don't know what they are doing, because they haven't yet completed the handover," he stressed.
Meanwhile, security expert Ridvan Emini tells KosovaPress that the new mayors in northern Kosovo who are now from the Serb List, and especially the newly sworn-in mayor Zoran Tadic, are claiming to have found the municipality in 'not a good condition', citing vandalism by the previous mayor and lack of official documentation, and so on. All of this is part of Belgrade's massive Serbian propaganda to demonize the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, for which we, as an institute, have continuously reacted.
"During this year, such demonization had come towards the Kosovo police for alleged discrimination against local Serbs, but this is the fact from both Kosovo institutions and international ones operating in Kosovo that it does not hold up and as such is just pure propaganda. Now the same rhetoric is continuing towards former municipal mayors allegedly for vandalism and lack of administration, so it is part of the larger part for the delegitimization of Kosovo institutions in the northern part of the country," Emini emphasized.
In North Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zvečan and Zubin Potok, the new mayors who come from the Serbian List officially took office on Friday, December 5th.
