Two words for Shpend Ahmeti victory in Pristina

Pardje was confirmed Shpend Ahmeti's victory in Pristina. But that was not the expected victory. Well, I said I didn't expect a victory less than 10%. Hence, the short - term result makes the victory small and pale, looking from a broader perspective, a loss.

Personally, I'm happy to win Shpend Ahmeti. Because, in public and in private, I had the lobe in the 2013 elections, and even in this election to vote on this candidate. But I reject the logic of a fan, so I think we should take a closer look at the situation.

The first job, Vetevendosje has made very strategic investments in Pristina in terms of political benefits. Increasing transparency is not necessarily good for citizens. But the Shpend has used the demand for transparency and citizen illness to prevent any misuse in order to increase his support. Also, another important electoral effect of transparency is the manufacturing of the idea that he himself, along with his staff, is not and cannot be corrupt. He has also dispelled doubts about such a thing by being a great winner in this regard.

But what good comes to citizens from this increase in transparency? Yes, they will see municipal contracts, but on the other hand, that does not in itself imply an automatic misuse ban. On the contrary, this can only make them so positive. And, obviously, abuses are made up in private spaces. Coffee, restaurants or even yachts. The municipality, like no other institution, did not make a groundbreaking contract public that would make no sense. And yet, citizens more than for a transparent policy need a policy that does work, even by washing their hands. Transparency does not automatically translate into the arrival of good things for citizens. Rather, it blackmails development. Either be visible or seem to be orderly or do not exist at all.

Other strategic investments were pins placed on sidewalks, at the time that Pristina still suffers from a lack of parking lots. Then, too, lighting roads and providing faster administrative services. Then the angle of reading and the like. Of course, it is not that citizens will not benefit from these things. In practical terms, it is impossible to do something - no matter how bad - in politics that no one could benefit in any form. Politicians cannot come out of their essence: citizens' ministers. They can do their job wrong, steal, or work all the time to seem to be working and still remain servants. Especially local-level politicians.

This work done by Vetevendosje in Pristina is not new. On the contrary, it dates back to the beginnings of local governments in Kosovo. Everyone, without exception, has worked in a single aspect - so that they seem to be working. Public relations was promoted as a more important thing than the relationship itself with the work they did. Selling the product became more important than the product itself.

It may seem strange, but I honestly think there was more transparency in Kosovo than it should. Transparency, public relations, seriously damaging development. Because development has its own rules, which are hampered by arbitrary interventions in it, and by interpretations. America has not been economically developed by investigative journalists, analysts, or critics, but entrepreneurs, even the older and the oldest, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller.

Here comes Vetevendosje, like other parties in Kosovo. The sense of citizens as a creditor valuer of his problems is a big mistake. Vetevendosje has even organised municipal citizens' gatherings to discuss their problems, and to hear their proposals for possible solutions. You invite citizens into co-governance means removing service from yourself. Having no idea and no strength to push things forward.

A politician's need to be supervised by the public gives priority to his shortcomings. The politician has to do his job without constantly expecting public affirmation, the applause of fans. This is not a sport. Meanwhile, abuses are not necessarily bad. In liberal systems, a good economy serves development.

Shit.

Given that Vetevendosje met the natural social requirement for transparency and participation, and takes into account the effective machinery to promote its work ʹ narrow victory in these elections becomes problematic. It imposes another approach to government. Not the approach of being blackmailed by citizens, and to suspend development. Shpend Ahmeti will no longer win if he fails to push things forward in the municipal assembly, and if large investments are not made. Citizens are hypocrites: on one side they want transparency, but on the other they want development despite reasoning.

Politics has to do with images, really, but images aren't locked and still. They circulate among us every day, they divide, they break down, they resurface. The Shpend must be more devoted to civic interest, not as he currently perceives, but as he would in twenty years. And now that his victory is in his hands, he must realize that transparency and prevention is not something that makes people remember. In liberal systems there is no need for inquisitors. In liberal systems, there is a need for creative people and developers, who, yes, manage to bring to a city with Pristina preconditions for four years, approximately 1 billion euros in investments.

Meanwhile, what Yll Hoxha did yesterday is symptom of a serious power disease in Pristina. Instead of being completely uncommunicative with central government agents, it is no longer reluctant to build the lowest possible communication. In practical terms, his action legitimizes the gross reproach that Wessel MP Albulen Haxhiu “Ma hongsh k...” And this communication, meanwhile, is a symptom of something else: of a decaying substance that risks making Vetevendosje a party similar to other parties.

The Shpend was more creative than the other candidates. It was easy to note that it was the best among the alternatives Pristina citizens had. But after four years it will become eight in government, and this governing form that limits and prevents creativity will do huge damage to him and Pristina.