Shpend Ahmeti: I want to be measured on the extent to which Prishtina exists for its citizens
Prishtina’s mayor discusses his first term in office and looks to the future in this election year.
|2017.04.30
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"Nobody comes to these gatherings to say that we did well. Everyone has a problem, but the good thing is that people know that the Municipality listens to them."
"A leader is assessed after he leaves office. If he managed to establish systems and make changes in society, which will be seen later."
"Sidewalks are not meant for parking, regardless of whether there are parking lots. In other words, we can talk about the lack of parking places, but there is nothing to talk about with the sidewalks."
"Did we make mistakes? Of course, it is impossible without mistakes. Could have we done more? I believe that we can always do more."
"I don’t agree, because four lanes will reduce to two lanes within the city and, when you make four lanes, you kind of tell the cars: 'come in!'”
"Politics for me is neither an exchange, a purchase, nor a personal or party interest, but rather the art of the possible — what you can achieve to improve the wellbeing of people."
"I want to protect the citizen with a house whose light is blocked by another citizen with a taller building."
"I believe we can be defined as a social democratic government that fights and works for equality, that helps the private sector, with the public sector being of key importance."
Eraldin Fazliu
Eraldin Fazliu is a former journalist at Kosovo 2.0. Eraldin completed his Master’s on ‘European Politics’ at the Masaryk University in the Czech Republic in 2014. Through his studies Eraldin became interested in the EU’s external policies, particularly in promotion of the rule of law externally. He is a passionate reader of politics and modern history.
This story was originally written in Albanian.