Invisible Candidates in Campaign

Officials of political issues say that in Macedonia, there may still be a determining factor for who the citizens will trust in the vote remains the party, which has delegated it and the party's chairman, though in these elections there may be only a turning of the mayoral candidate, which could get more or less votes than the party that has delegated. But candidates for municipal advisers do not present factors that would determine candidates to give or not the vote for any list of advisers.

“actually said there is a lack of that level of thinking that this is the man who would most worthy of representing the interests of citizens, and regardless of which party he belongs to or what interest group he represents, he should be in the right position”.

“Pak or more in Macedonia, citizens still primarily perceive the political party from which it has been delegated, the party leader and then comes to terms of who is the candidate who will represent it in local power”.

This is so because we are a society where political subjects are created or built under the leadership-party system, or party leader”, says Radio Free Europe, Besa Kadriu legalising political science at the University of Southeast Europe in Tetovo.

On the other hand, Education Sinani, the connoisseur of political issues, says political parties lack long-term cadrovic politics for establishing and promoting competent frameworks for the development of specific projects in municipalities, but the selection of persons he competes with in the elections is more to do with satisfying the interests of certain clans.

The political parties are mostly oriented towards the political party leader's figure, in concrete cases even in the municipality's candidate figure, so there is no transparency that we would like to see and we don't see the candidates for councilors. The other problem is that a large portion of the lists for municipal advisers are filled, lists are filled and they are not made public, and so much because then the opinion would learn how weak they are”, says Arsim Sinani.

According to him, the lack of adequate frameworks has particularly led Albanian municipalities very little to absorb funds from the EU.

The poor cadrovic policies have brought irresponsible people, without experience and without proper professional preparation to develop different ideas and projects of interest to citizens, such as infrastructure etc.”, says Education Sinani.

While Besa Kadriu says municipal advisers remain invisible “, because professional promotion does not take place according to the meritocracy system, though adds that part of the parties have made exceptions by selecting personalities witnessed in certain professions.

The “cannot come to terms unfortunately yet true values, worthy figures who would represent the interests of citizens in certain settlements. I'd say very few come into terms of meritocracy. This is the reality of policymaking in Macedonia”, says Besa Kadriu.