MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 MITROVICË/MITROVICA REGION
LEPOSAVIĆ/LEPOSAVIQ MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 LEPOSAVIĆ/LEPOSAVIQ The OSCE regional centre Mitrovicë/Mitrovica covers nine (9) municipalities, including Leposavić/Leposaviq, and has teams working in all of them.
AREA AND POPULATION
750 km² area The municipality of Leposavić/Leposaviq is located in northern Kosovo. It covers an area of approximately 750 km² and includes Leposavić/Leposaviq town and 72 villages. No official data on 72 villages population is available as the 2011 census was not conducted in the northern municipalities. According to the municipal 18,635 population administration, the total population is estimated at 18,635.
Ethnic composition Since June 1999, the municipality has received displaced persons from all over Kosovo and now hosts approximately 1.Kosovo Serbs approximately 18,000 2,500 of them. Most Kosovo Serb displaced persons live in 2.Kosovo Albanians approximately 270 private accommodation or with their relatives. Others live in 3.Kosovo Bosniaks 350 collective centres in Leposavić/Leposaviq town and in 4.Kosovo Roma 12 Lešak/Leshak and Sočanica/Soçanicë villages. Kosovo Ashkali According to the census conducted in 1981, there were 858 (source: community representatives) Kosovo Albanians, 14,977 Kosovo Serbs and 79 Kosovo Montenegrins in the municipality; according to the census conducted in 1991*, there were 951 Kosovo Albanians, 14,299 Kosovo Serbs and 89 Kosovo Montenegrins in the municipality.
According to the UNHCR statistics, 257 displaced persons have returned to the municipality since 1999, of them 13 Kosovo Serbs and 244 Kosovo Albanians.
*The 1991 census is not accepted by Kosovo Albanians as legitimate.
GOVERNING STRUCTURES AND POLITICAL OVERVIEW The total number of voters in Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality registered for the municipal elections held in October 2017 was 17,7471, including out-of-Kosovo voters. The voter turnout was 48.03% or 8,523 voters (source: Central Election Commission).
The 2017 municipal assembly election results were as follows: The current seat distribution is as follows:
56.27% SL Serbian List 12 seats 28.57% PKS Party of Kosovo Serbs 6 seats 4.64% GIDI Citizens Initiative – 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. LEPOSAVIĆ/LEPOSAVIQ
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 LEGISLATIVE SECURITY PRESENCE
The municipal assembly has 19 seats distributed among three The Kosovo Police station in Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality (3) political entities, all members are Kosovo Serb; six (6) are has 99 police officers, 94 are Kosovo Serb, one (1) Kosovo women. The Municipal Assembly Chairperson is Nikola Lazović Bosniak and four (4) Kosovo Albanian assigned to Bistricë e (SL). Shalës/Šaljska Bistrica police substation; 14 are women.
As for the international military presence, Slovenian KFOR has a EXECUTIVE Liaison Monitoring Team - LMT covering the area (source: Kosovo Police).
Structure of municipal executive and the executive's political affiliations. The municipality is headed by Mayor Zoran Todić (SL), elected for his first term as mayor with 63.20% of votes in the first round of the 2017 municipal elections. In the previous mandate, the ECONOMY € mayor was Dragan Jablanović (then Citizen Initiative Srpska), The economy of Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality is who was elected in the first round of the 2013 municipal predominantly based on agriculture and small trade businesses. elections with 51.48% of the votes cast. Deputy Mayor is Radoš There is no reliable data on the number of registered businesses Mihajlović (SL). and number of people employed in the private sector (source: municipal general administration).
There are 13 municipal departments. Three (3) departments are run by women directors: administration (SL); budget and finance (SL) and health (not affiliated), ten (10) departments are PUBLIC SERVICES run by men directors: agriculture and rural development (not affiliated); economic development (GIDI); cadastre and geodesy Infrastructure (SL); communities (Citizens' Initiative Together); culture, youth and sports (SL), education (SL); firefighters and inspection (SL); The overall status of infrastructure in the municipality is road infrastructure (GIDI); urban planning and inspection (SL) assessed as underdeveloped. However, a number of and social welfare (SL). In the previous mandate (2013-2017), infrastructural projects, especially those that pertain to road five (5) directors were women. infrastructure, have been implemented in the past several years with the financial assistance of local institutions, the Serbian Government and international organizations (source: municipal general administration). JUDICIARY
In February 2015, the parties engaged in the EU-facilitated Health Dialogue between Belgrade and Prishtinë/Priština reached an agreement on judiciary structures in northern Kosovo. The The primary health care Serbia-run system includes one (1) process of the integration of the Serbia-run judiciary into the health house and eight (8) village 'ambulantas' of which only two legal system in Kosovo started on 24 October 2017. (2) units are operational. The health sector has 135 employees, including doctors, nurses and support staff; 103 women and 32 There is one (1) Basic Court in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica with men. jurisdiction over seven (7) municipalities in the region, i.e. Mitrovicë/Mitrovica South, Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North, There is also one (1) health unit in Kosovo Albanian village of Leposavić/Leposaviq, Zubin Potok, Skenderaj/Srbica, Bistricë e Shalës/Šaljska Bistrica with three (3) medical staff, one Zvečan/Zveçan and Vushtrri/Vučitrn. (1) doctor and two (2) technical staff run by Kosovo institutions (source: municipal communities’ officer). The Basic Court Mitrovicë/Mitrovica Branch in Leposavić/Leposaviq has three (3) Kosovo Serb judges; two (2) All communities have access to health care and to health men and one (1) woman. facilities (source: head of Leposavić/Leposaviq Health House).
Mitrovicë/Mitrovica Basic Prosecutor's Office covers the municipality. LEPOSAVIĆ/LEPOSAVIQ
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 Education KEY FACTS There are three (3) primary schools with 1,281 pupils and 232 employees of which 170 teachers, two (2) secondary schools In Leposavić/Leposaviq there are: with 391 students and 124 employees of which 91 teachers and three (3) kindergartens with 638 children and 175 staff. There is also one (1) primary school located in Kosovo Albanian • 19 seats in the municipal assembly village of Bistricë e Shalës/Šaljska Bistrica with 24 pupils and 16 distributed amongst 3 political entities employees of which ten (10) teachers. The municipality also hosts three (3) faculties, education, sports • 99 police officers and agronomy as well as two (2) colleges, economics and traffic. These faculties are part of the public university in northern Mitrovica/Mitrovicë (source: municipal general administration-officer • 3 judges dealing with education issues and kindergartens' directors). • 541 employees in 4 primary and 2 secondary schools and 3 kindergartens
RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SITES
Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality has 16 Serbian Orthodox churches and three (3) monasteries, all three (3) monasteries are classified as Special Protective Zones. Seven (7) Serbian Orthodox churches have been renovated and nine (9) new ones are built after the conflict. There is one (1) mosque in the municipality, it was built after the conflict (source: local priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, municipal communities' officer and municipal administration).
A total of 20 cultural heritage sites in Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality are included in the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport list of sites under permanent/temporary protection..