{"id":18778,"date":"2021-08-14T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2021-08-14T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:40:32","slug":"minister-arben-vitia-enters-the-race-for-prishtina-commune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-arben-vitia-enters-the-race-for-prishtina-commune\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Arben Vitia enters the race for Prishtina&#8217;s mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s minister of health in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Kurti administration, Arben Vitia, is now running for Prishtina\u2019s mayor through the LVV (Self-determination movement).<\/p>\n<p>Vitia has often been the focus of many political attacks by the opposition in Kosovo, especially regarding claims of mismanaging the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite everything, LVV decided to place him at the front of their race for Prishtina\u2019s commune.<\/p>\n<p>Prishtina is currently being administered by Shpend Ahmeti, representative of the Social-Democratic party.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, since the last general elections in the country that took place on February 14<sup>th<\/sup>, \u00a0Albin Kurti\u2019s LVV has proved to have a strong electoral following.<\/p>\n<p>The local elections in Kosovo will be held on October 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2021\/08\/13\/albanian-candidate-running-against-the-serbian-list-in-northern-mitrovica\/\">Albanian candidate running against the \u2018Serbian List\u2019 in northern Mitrovica<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/11\/23\/mayor-of-mitrovica-supports-basha-accusations-against-him-are-political-slanders\/\">Mayor of Mitrovica supports Basha: Accusations against him are political slanders<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/kosovo\/2020\/10\/12\/self-determination-movement-calls-for-elections-in-north-mitrovica\/\">Self Determination Movement calls for elections in North Mitrovica<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo\u2019s minister of health in the 2nd Kurti administration, Arben Vitia, is now running for Prishtina\u2019s mayor through the LVV (Self-determination movement). Vitia has often been the focus of many political attacks by the opposition in Kosovo, especially regarding claims of mismanaging the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite everything, LVV decided to place him at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Minister Arben Vitia enters the race for Prishtina&#039;s mayor - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/minister-arben-vitia-enters-the-race-for-prishtina-commune\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Arben Vitia enters the race for Prishtina&#039;s mayor - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kosovo\u2019s minister of health in the 2nd Kurti administration, Arben Vitia, is now running for Prishtina\u2019s mayor through the LVV (Self-determination movement). 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