JANUARY 2013 Pejë/Peć MUNICIPAL PROFILES

1. Area and Population The OSCE regional centre covers six (6) municipalities The municipality of Pejë/Peć is located in western including Pejë/Peć and has field teams working in all of . It covers an area of approximately 603 km² and them. includes Pejë/Peć town and 76 villages. According to the Kosovo Population and Housing Census 2011 the total population is 96,450.

Ethnic composition

1. : 87,975 2. Kosovo Bosniaks: 3,786 3. Kosovo Egyptians: 2,700 4. Kosovo Roma: 993 5. Kosovo Serbs: 332 6. Kosovo Gorani: 189 7. Kosovo Ashkali: 143 8. Kosovo Turks: 59 9. Other: 132 10. Not specified: 141 (Source: Kosovo Agency of Statistics)

Note: According to the municipal office for communities and returns, approximately 4,500 Kosovo Bosniaks; 1,300 Kosovo Roma; 800 Kosovo Serbs; 200 Kosovo Ashkali; and 20 Kosovo Montenegrins reside in the municipality. AAK - Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Prior to the 1999 conflict the number of Kosovo Serbs 33.00% 13 seats in the municipality was higher. They are since displaced; LDK Democratic League of Kosovo there is no data on their current whereabouts. 15.00% 6 seats PDK Democratic Party of Kosovo 15.00% 6 seats 2. Governing Structures and Political Overview LDD Democratic League of Dardania A total number of voters in Pejë/Peć municipality 10.00% 4 seats registered for the last municipal elections held in ORA Reformist Party November 2009 was 89,156 including out-of-Kosovo 7.00% 3 seats voters. The voter turnout was 42.02 per cent/36,050 AKR Alliance New Kosovo voters (source: Central Elections Commission). 5.00% 2 seats PSD Social Democratic Party The election results were as shown to the right: 5.00% 2 seats IRDK Democratic Initiative of Kosovo 2.00% 1 seat a. Legislative PD Justice Party The Municipal Assembly has 41 seats distributed 2.00% 1 seat amongst 12 political entities. 37 members are Kosovo SDA Democratic Action Party Albanians, three (3) are Kosovo Bosniaks, and one (1) is 2.00% 1 seat Kosovo Roma; 13 assembly members are female. SDP Party for the Democratic Changes 2.00% 1 seat According to the law on local self-government, a VAKAT Coalition municipality with more than ten (10) per cent of 2.00% 1 seat residents belonging to communities not in majority in that municipality is required to appoint a deputy b. Executive municipal assembly chairperson for communities. As of The municipality is headed by the mayor, Ali Berisha (AAK) January 2010 Municipal assembly deputy chairperson and a deputy mayor, Ali Lajqi (AAK,). In addition, there are for communities in Pejë/Peć is Fahrudin Medjedović two (2) deputy mayors for communities, Drenko Todorović (Kosovo Bosniak). (Kosovo Serb) and Safet Zoranić (Kosovo Bosniak). JANUARY 2013 Pejë/Peć MUNICIPAL PROFILES

It has 14 municipal directorates: administration (AAK); b. Health education (AAK); finance (AAK); urbanism (LDK); Pejë/Peć has one (1) main family health centre; ten economic development (LDD); cadastre and geodesy (10) family health centres, 13 health houses and one (AAK); health and social welfare (AAK); European (1) stomatology polyclinic. Health sector has 340 integration and diaspora (LDD); culture, youth and sport employees, 220 females and 120 male, including (AAK); inspection (AKK); emergency and protection doctors, nurses and support staff. (AAK); property-legal issues (AAK); municipal work and public services (AAK); agriculture, forestry and hydro- Access: economy (LDK) (source: municipal assembly secretariat). All communities have access to health care and all health facilities. The Kosovo Serb community mainly uses one 3. Judiciary (1) local health clinic in Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc, while Pejë/Peć basic court in has 27 judges; ten (10) are more serious cases are treated in northern Mitrovica/ female (all Kosovo Albanian). The court has branches in Mitrovicë (source: municipal directorate of health and Istog/; Klinë/ and Deçan/Dećane which also social welfare). covers municipality. c. Education Additional information: There are 28 primary schools with their 16 satellite Pejë/Peć basic prosecutor’s office in has 13 prosecutors, schools and subclasses with 15,747 pupils and 833 12 Kosovo Albanians and one (1) Kosovo Bosniak, teachers. Besides six (6) secondary schools, with 6,564 seven (7) are female. In addition to Pejë/Peć the office students and 400 teachers there is also a school for covers Deçan/Dečane; Istog/Istok; Junik; and Klinë/Klina visually impaired students, and a primary and secondary municipalities. music school. While Kosovo Roma, Kosovo Ashkali and Kosovo Egyptians (357 pupils in primary and 91 4. Security Presence pupils in secondary schools) attend classes in Albanian The Kosovo police station in Pejë/Peć municipality has language, Kosovo Bosniaks (419 pupils in primary and 162 officers in the main police station and in its two (2) 91 pupils in secondary) are receiving education in the sub-stations in Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc and Vitomirica/ Bosnian language. There is also one (1) primary and Vitomiricë. Out of 162 police officers 45 are from the three (3) secondary schools in Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc Kosovo Serb, Kosovo Bosniak, Kosovo Egyptian and that follow Serbian curriculum and have approximately Kosovo Gorani communities, while 21 officers are female 130 pupils. In addition, Pejë/Peć municipality has three (source: Kosovo police). (3) kindergartens (source: municipal directorate of education). As for the international military presence, Italian KFOR covers the area (source: Italian KFOR Liaison Monitoring 7. Religious and Cultural sites Team - LMT). Pejë/Peć municipality has 20 mosques. Eleven (11) of them were renovated following the conflict. There are six 5. Economy (6) Serbian Orthodox churches in the municipality. Five The economy of the municipality of Pejë/Peć is mainly (5) are functional while one (1) in Siga/Cigë is not. There based on the agriculture and construction business. are five (5) Catholic churches in Pejë/Peć municipality There are some 7,198 registered private businesses and all function (source: Kosovo institute for monument operating in the municipality. There is no reliable data on protection). the number of people employed in private sector in Pejë/ Peć (source: municipal directorate of finance). toknow 6. Public Services In Pejë/Peć there are:

seats in the municipal assembly distributed a. Infrastructure amongst 12 political entities. The overall status of the infrastructure in the municipality 41 of Pejë/Peć is assessed as good. police officers. All the main roads connecting major villages with the urban centre are asphalted. Pejë/Peć town is connected 162 to water supply and sewage systems. Out of 43 villages judges. 76 are connected to water supply system and only ten (10) are connected to the sewage system. The power 27 supply is still a problem especially in winter (source: teachers in 28 primary and 6 secondary directorate for municipal work and public services). 1233 schools.