Skopje, 24 August 2025 (MIA) – The weekend fair of mayors, titled “Four Years Working for You” that is organized by VMRO-DPMNE, resumes Sunday with panel discussions. Addressing a panel, Minister of Local Self-Government Zlatko Perinski said the government has been strongly supporting the municipalities in order to motivate the mayors and the local administration to create projects according to the needs of the citizens.

“This government has been allocating funds to all local self-governments on the basis of projects we received as feedback from the local self-governments themselves. We wanted to motivate the mayors, to motivate the local administration to create projects to meet the needs of the citizens and based on that, to allocate funds from the central budget for the projects to be implemented,” said Perinski.

In the first public call, said the Minister, there are 288 projects, of which 137 have already been completed, and from the two calls, schools have been built and reconstructed, road infrastructure has been built, as well as kindergartens and sports facilities.

-In the first public call we have 288 projects. In the second public call contracts have already been concluded for 828 projects that are being implemented on the ground. From the first public call out of those 288 projects, 137 have been completed. The Government's promise is in its final phase and the projects are seeing the light of day. From the first and second public calls, 55 schools were built and reconstructed in just one year, we have over 702 projects aimed at improving or building new road infrastructure, we have kindergartens, 9 kindergartens have been reconstructed or built, 36 sports facilities. When you see that out of 288, 137 projects have already been completed, you cannot help but be motivated to go on,” Perinski stressed.

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