In Rožaje, the purge of DPS and SDP employees

The former vice-president of the municipality, Idriz Nurković, says that there is open pressure on employees to switch to the Bosniak party.
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Municipality of Rožaje, Photo: Aida Skorupan
Municipality of Rožaje, Photo: Aida Skorupan
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Ažurirano: 22.10.2016. 08:50h

The administration of Rožaj started a "purge" of employees, members and sympathizers of SDP and DPS were found in the first two coups. Immediately before the parliamentary elections, SDP cadres were sent home and were handed solutions stating that there are no jobs for them in the new systematization.

For this reason, the former secretary of the Secretariat for Culture and Social Activities Ajsel Kalač, the former secretary of the Secretariat for Transport and Housing Demir Kalač, the director of the Business Center Jasmin Bralić, the director of the Local Revenue Authority Elvis Škrijelj, as well as advisers and officials and managed by Rafet Kalender, Fikret Ramusović and Šaban Murić.

The secretariats where they worked, the Business Center and the Local Revenue Administration were abolished by the new systematization, and those services were annexed to other bodies. Earlier, from the ranks of the SDP, the Vice President of the Municipality Idriz Nurković and the director of the Waterworks Safet Redžović have lost their jobs.

Decisions on non-assignment, immediately after the parliamentary elections, were also handed over to DPS personnel, Senada Kujević, who worked for 32 years as an independent consultant for health and veterans' disability protection, Nervina Murić, after 23 years of service as an independent officer for administrative, accounting - financial affairs.

Ferida Ganić, independent adviser for economy and development, Enisa Murić, senior adviser for sports, culture and the fight against corruption, Fahreta Ibrahimovic, senior adviser for financial relations with consumer units and registrar Anela Škrijelj were also sent home. In their decisions, it is stated that they have been made available to the HR department for the next six to 12 months, and that they will receive wages during that period. If they are not deployed, the conditions are met to be declared technologically redundant. "Vijesti" sources from BS, DPS and SDP claim that this is just the beginning, and that at least 30 more employees, mostly from the ranks of SDP and DPS, will remain without work.

The recent vice-president of the municipality, Idriz Nurković (SDP), said that these days, under the guise of rationalizing jobs, the local administration is carrying out classic political discrimination against all political dissenters, especially people who belong to the SDP.

"Under the pretext of a new local government organization, all secretariats and administrations led by SDP cadres were abolished. And that only and exclusively of those organizational units, which was obviously done on a political basis and after the dissolution of the BS-SDP coalition. That was not enough, so these days additional, open pressure is being exerted on the workers of those secretariats to sign the BS application forms or else they will not be assigned, which is classic mobbing towards SDP members and others who are not BS members." , said Nurković and added that the SDP will not let this open political discrimination pass without adequate sanctions for all those who carry it out. borne by the citizens of this municipality. OO SDP will seek protection from all competent and judicial authorities," said Nurković.

From the media pool of the DPS, they stated that the new government has continuously harassed and mistreated their staff in the local administration since its arrival. More than 30 members and sympathizers of DPS were fired earlier, and those who switched to BS were reinstated.

Nokić: I don't know which party those who lose their jobs are from

The president of OO BS, Amer Nokić, said that the rationalization of jobs is a consequence of the contract signed with the Ministry of Finance last year, based on which 20 percent fewer employees are expected. He does not know which political party the workers who will lose their jobs belong to.

"But what is certain is that we are not the principals of any activity that affects further relations within the local administration. In communication with the officials of the Bosniak Party in the local administration, we will demand that all activities be postponed as much as possible during the election period," said Nokić.

Before the elections, BS employed about 30 of its supporters for a fixed or indefinite period. Nurković claims that Finance Minister Raško Konjević did not give his consent for this.

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