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The mayor of the Municipality of Çairi in Skopje, Visar Ganiu, has denounced on Friday evening that he was threatened over the phone by a representative of the Democratic Union for Integration. Mr. Ganiu presented the case to the police, where he said that the threatener introduced himself as Muharrem Hasani and said that: "You and Izet Mejhiti will find yourselves together on the street" and that he had continued with insults and serious insults.
Mr. Ganiu, who is in his third term at the head of Çair, a municipality inhabited by an Albanian majority within the capital, told Alsat television in Skopje that the threats come after the statement in the media that "the elections of the heads of the branches of the Democratic Union for Integration contradicts the party statute".
Visar Ganiu is part of the DUI faction known in public as the "fire group" which includes the former vice-president of the party and legislator Izet Mejhiti, two other MPs, the current mayor of the municipality of Saraj in Skopje, Blerim Bexheti and former DUI senior officials.
Currently, the largest party in power, DUI, is in an internal reorganization campaign, namely the election of the heads of its branches and sub-branches. Muharrem Hasani is a candidate for the head of the Butel branch in Skopje. He is also the deputy director of the Customs Agency of North Macedonia. Mr. Hasani has refuted Mr. Ganiu's accusations on social networks, calling them slander and untruths.
"I express regret for any attempt to taint the democratic electoral processes in DUI by the estranged from the family that gave birth to them, raised them and brought them to where they are ," Mr. Hasani writes.
Clashes within the DUI began after the discontent and reactions of the officials now known as the "fire group" towards the DUI ministers in the government, especially towards the Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grupi, whom the members of the faction say acts in the executive power without consulting the broad leadership of the party.
Meanwhile, the DUI estimates that according to the statute there can be no faction within the party and that this is a way to remove this group from party positions. Meanwhile, analysts say that the "fire group" can form a separate party, eventually form a coalition in the next elections with the Albanian opposition in North Macedonia./ VOA
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