MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 PEJË/PEĆ REGION
PEJË/PEĆ MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 PEJË/PEĆ The OSCE regional centre covers six (6) municipalities, including Pejë/Peć where the centre is located, and has teams working in all of them.
AREA AND POPULATION 603 km² area The municipality of Pejë/Peć is located in western Kosovo. It covers an area of approximately 603 km² and includes Pejë/Peć 78 villages city and 78 villages. According to the 2011 Kosovo Population and Housing Census, the total population is 96,450. 96,450 population
Ethnic composition According to the census conducted in 1981, there were 79,965 Kosovo Albanians, 7,995 Kosovo Serbs and 9,796 Kosovo 1.Kosovo Albanians 87,975 Montenegrins in the municipality; according to the census 2.Kosovo Bosniaks 3,786 conducted in 1991*, there were 96,441 Kosovo Albanians, 7,815 3.Kosovo Egyptians 2,700 Kosovo Serbs and 6,960 Kosovo Montenegrins in the 4.Kosovo Roma 993 municipality. 5.Kosovo Serbs 332 6.Kosovo Gorani 189 According to the UNHCR statistics, 2,616 displaced persons 7.Kosovo Ashkali 143 have returned to the municipality since 1999, of them 904 8.Kosovo Turks 59 Kosovo Serbs, 428 Kosovo Roma, 792 Kosovo Ashkali and 9.Other 132 Kosovo Egyptians, 479 Kosovo Bosniaks, ten (10) Kosovo Gorani 10.Not specified 141 and three (3) Kosovo Montenegrins.
(source: Kosovo Agency of Statistics) *The 1991 census is not accepted by Kosovo Albanians as legitimate.
GOVERNING STRUCTURES AND POLITICAL OVERVIEW The total number of voters in Pejë/Peć municipality registered for the municipal elections held in October 2017 was 110,6911, including out-of-Kosovo voters. The voter turnout was 40.31% or 44,616 voters (source: Central Election Commission).
The 2017 municipal assembly election results were as follows: The current seat distribution is as follows:
39.39% LDK Democratic League of Kosovo 15 seats 27.50% AAK Alliance for Future of Kosovo 10 seats 12.92% PDK Democratic Party of Kosovo 5 seats 8.61% Vetëvendosje! (Self-Determination) Movement 3 seats 2.19% ALTERNATIVA 1 seat 2.16% NISMA Social Democratic Initiative 1 seat
1. The overall population figure presented above is taken from the 2011 census (or authoritative estimates where the census figure is not available), whereas the voters list is a reflection of all people with a civil registration entry in the municipality. In some cases, the voters list figure is higher than or similar to the overall population number due to insufficient updating of the civil registry or a significant proportion of people registered in the municipality but actually living elsewhere or abroad. PEJË/PEĆ
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 LEGISLATIVE ECONOMY € The Municipal Assembly has 35 seats distributed among six (6) The economy of Pejë/Peć municipality is predominantly based on political entities, all members are Kosovo Albanian; 11 are agriculture, services and trading. There are approximately 7,964 women. The Municipal Assembly Chairperson is Islam Husaj registered private businesses operating in the municipality. (LDK). There is no reliable data on the number of people employed in the private sector (source: municipal directorate of economic development- business registration office). EXECUTIVE PUBLIC SERVICES Structure of municipal executive and the executive's political affiliations. Infrastructure The municipality is headed by Mayor Gazmend Muhaxheri (LDK), re-elected for his second term as mayor with 50.23% of votes in The overall status of the infrastructure in the municipality is the first round of the 2017 municipal elections. In the 2013 assessed as good. All the main roads that connect villages with municipal elections, Mayor Muhaxheri won with 56.48% of votes the urban centre are asphalted. Pejë/Peć city is connected to in the second round. Deputy Mayor is Shkumbin Gashi (LDK). water supply and sewage systems. Out of 78 villages, 64 are There are 14 municipal departments. Three (3) departments are connected to water supply system and 56 are connected to the run by women directors: economic development (LDK); sewage system, and there are 60,000 meters of irrigation European integration and diaspora (LDK); and municipal works channels. Power supply is still a problem in rural areas, especially and public services (PDK), 11 departments are run by men during winter (source: directorate of municipal work and public services). directors: administration (LDK); education (LDK); finance (LDK); urbanism (PDK); cadastre and geodesy (LDK); health and social Health welfare (LDK); culture, youth and sport (LDK); inspection (PDK); emergency and protection (PDK); property-legal issues (PD); and Pejë/Peć has one (1) main family health centre, 11 family health agriculture, forestry and hydro-economy (LDK). In the previous centres and ten (10) family medical clinics. There are 340 mandate (2013-2017), one (1) director was a woman (source: employees in the health sector, including doctors, nurses and municipal assembly secretariat). support staff; 252 women and 88 men.
JUDICIARY The Kosovo Serb community predominantly uses the Serbia-run healthcare facility in Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc. For serious health issues, Kosovo Serb residents tend to get treatment in the Serbia- Pejë/Peć Basic Court has 24 judges, all Kosovo Albanian; 16 men run Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North hospital. and eight (8) women. It consists of a general department (civil and criminal), a serious crimes department, a juvenile All communities have access to health care and all health department and a minor offences division and has branches in facilities (source: municipal directorate of health and social welfare). Deçan/Dečani, Istog/Istok and Klinë/Klina.
Pejë/Peć Basic Prosecutor's Office has 24 prosecutors, 23 are Education Kosovo Albanian and one (1) is Kosovo Serb; 15 are men and nine (9) are women. The Office consists of a general department, a There are 27 primary schools with 14,111 pupils and 930 department of serious crimes and a juveniles department (source: teachers, six (6) secondary schools with 5,283 students and 416 Pejë/Peć Basic Court, Pejë/Peć Basic Prosecutor's Office) teachers and one (1) kindergarten with 37 teachers.
There is also one (1) Serbian-curriculum primary school in Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc with 90 pupils and 35 teachers, one (1) SECURITY PRESENCE secondary school with 30 students and 30 teachers and one (1) kindergarten with 20 children and one (1) teacher. Kosovo Police station in Pejë/Peć municipality has 159 officers at the main police station and its two (2) sub-stations in In addition, Pejë/Peć hosts the Resource Centre for Learning and Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc and Vitomirica/Vitomiricë, 122 are Consulting, a school offering primary and secondary education Kosovo Albanian, 27 Kosovo Bosniak, five (5) Kosovo Egyptian, for blind and visually impaired students from all over Kosovo, and two (2) Kosovo Serb, one (1) Kosovo Montenegrin, one (1) Kosovo a primary and secondary music school (source: municipal directorate of Ashkali, and one (1) Kosovo Gorani; 26 are women (source: Kosovo education). Police). There is also a public university "Haxhi Zeka" in Pejë/Peć, Kosovo Police Regional Directorate in Pejë/Peć town has 156 offering bachelor and master studies. The Faculty of Business officers, 150 Kosovo Albanian and six (6) Kosovo Bosniak; 16 are (Business Administration) offers bachelor and master studies in women. Albanian and Bosniak languages, other faculties offer studies in Albanian language only. As for the international military presence, Italian KFOR covers the area (source: Italian KFOR Liaison Monitoring Team - LMT). PEJË/PEĆ
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SITES KEY FACTS Pejë/Peć municipality has a total of 28 mosques and two (2) tekkes (dervish lodges). Twenty-two (22) mosques were In Pejë/Peć there are: destroyed/damaged in the 1999 conflict and have been reconstructed subsequently. An Islamic Grand Madrassa and one • 35 seats in the municipal assembly (1) tekke remains destroyed since 1999. From the total number of mosques, two (2) are non-functional due to a lack of believers distributed among 6 political entities and five (5) are newly-built (i.e. did not exist before the conflict). There are six (6) Serbian Orthodox churches. One (1) was • 159 police officers in police stations and 156 destroyed during the March 2004 riots and was reconstructed in in the regional command 2012, one (1) was damaged after the 1999 conflict and further in the 2004 March riots and was reconstructed in the period 2013- 2014, one (1) remains damaged/burnt since 1999, and one (1) • 24 judges and 24 prosecutors remains non-functional due to a lack of believers. The Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Peć is also located in the municipality. It • 1,449 teachers in 28 primary and 7 secondary is listed in the UNESCO List of World Heritage. There are five (5) schools and 2 kindergartens Catholic churches and one (1) Protestant Evangelic church, all are operational (source: religious communities' representatives). • 1 public university A total of 112 cultural heritage sites (archaeological and architectural) in Pejë/Peć municipality are included in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport list of sites under permanent/temporary protection.