Candidate bids fail to reach citizens

Most of the candidates who have entered the election contest to gain the electorate's confidence in specific municipalities in Macedonia have not yet published online the programme they compete with in these local elections.
While political parties say the election bidding programme presents candidates in municipalities where they compete during their direct meeting with citizens.
But, Lura Pollozhani from the nongovernmental IMPAKT organisation which runs the “State Project, my <x0-x1>, for Radio Free Europe says it is more important that all candidates who have entered the race should have their own programme online, not just during the campaign, but over the next four years, despite the election results, as is the practice of developed European countries to push debate over what has been promised and what has been accomplished by local government leaders.
“needs to take seriously the work of programmes that offer candidates of various parties who have entered the election race, which do not do a job only superficially, but all promises must be conceived in detail”.
When we started with our organisation's project local selection '%s', none of the political parties had an election programme before September 25th, when the election campaign” officially began.
“Madje, some parties published these programmes with a week's delay and this does not allow citizens enough time to make a solution on the basis of precise information on what political parties offer”.
The confronting of political parties with citizens in this way, against promised and realised projects still leaves to be desired”, says Lura Pollozhani from the government organisation IMPAKT.
On the other hand, Macedonian politician Mitko Gageovski for Radio Free Europe says political parties don't pay much attention to the election programme because analyses show that citizens in Macedonia vote for candidate personality rather than offered projects.
“For citizens still no longer important is the offer to resolve a major issue that tangos citizens' interests, respectively, would convince voters to vote for a certain candidate. Citizens still vote for the personality reflecting a certain candidate, meaning his authority in the opinion, and no less is the party from which they have been delegated”, says Gagovski
On the other hand, Arben Halili, former director of the Northwest Macedonia Economic Oade, says that in offers of candidates for mayoral mayors, especially in predominantly Albanian municipalities, the analysis of teams specialising with the mayoral candidates is lacking, to come up with concrete plans about the realisation of specific projects in interest for Macedonia's citizens.
” Anyway, what comes into focus during the election campaign is that it offers big capital investments, but no one gets the courage to speak with concrete figures about what will be the cost of implementing the same projects that would be good for citizens”, Halili says.
Until the end of the campaign for local elections, nine days remain. While candidates aiming to earn the trust of citizens have identical offers, such as citizen gasification, energy efficiency, water for most of the settlements, kindergarten schools for children and hospitals, without providing deadlines and financial infrastructure for realising these promises.