Arsovska for the citizens who riot in Butel: These are not anyone's yards, but usurped land on which we are building a boulevard for all Skopje

Danela Arsovska press/ Photo: "Sloboden Pechat" - Dragan Mitreski

"If the citizens think that we should behave like that, that we should put a fence where we want and say that it is ours, we are going back 30 years. In this country there is a right, there are rules, and laws that should protect the public, general interest and the interest of all citizens, not just ten people. It is a space where there should be a boulevard that belongs to all the people of Skopje and it is not anyone's yard, but it is usurped land, said the mayor of Skopje Danela Arsovska today regarding the request to change the route for the construction of the new "Boca Ivanova" boulevard in the municipality of Butel.

Mayor Arsovska at the official start of the construction of the "Mega Park" in Chair Municipality, where she made a statement together with DUI Member of Parliament Izet Majiti and Chair Mayor Visar Ganiu, the claims of Butel Municipality Mayor Darko Kostovski from last week that she promised that a street would not be built in the yards where the boulevard is planned to pass, he considered them untrue.

- I promised in my campaign that I would implement the program for "Modern Skopje", in which you can find exactly that project on page 34. Second, lump-sum statements for the purpose of collecting points that the route can move, is something that this country of ours has been doing for 30 years. Macedonia cannot move on from the fact that everyone allows themselves everything that they think does not suit them personally, in the case when they have taken and occupied 500, 1000 square meters of state land, to say how they should dispose of it and move it trace - said Arsovska.

She added that the roundabout with "Hristijan Todorovski Karposh" boulevard and another major intersection remain disconnected only because, as she stated, someone took state land.

- I don't know if this is the desire of the citizens of the City of Skopje, I don't think so. I believe that 120.000 citizens who voted for the program of the City of Skopje in these elections decided that it will not remain an appendix of the city, that is, that someone who promised them in the past 30 years should realize it. And I don't believe that we should be led by someone's personal interests and that should remain as an appendix - stressed the mayor Arsovska.

She also mentioned the realization of other larger projects with expropriated lands that were already private and cited as an example the ASNOM boulevard where, as she indicated, in 2021 people were practically evicted from their houses and the places where they live for to foresee a boulevard in that place.

- Now we are talking about usurped land where 10 people took it, built, built swimming pools and haciendas, and someone should forgive that - added Arsovska.

In relation to this issue, the mayor of the Municipality of Butel, Darko Kostovski, claimed in a statement to the media last week that the mayor Arsovska personally promised the people that there would be no street and that a park would be built on "Hristijan Todorovski Karposh".

An acceptable solution, according to him, would be only dislocating the route and he said that the mayor Arsovska, during the campaign in 2021, told the citizens that there will be neither street nor buildings in this part of the municipality.

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