Is Kosovo's citizen politically defined?

Citizen exercises politics in different ways. From the debate with fellow citizens, to the confrontation of views and alternatives in which he believes and ultimately through the vote. His vote defines the power that public policy will hold within a mandate.

Power from the citizen's perspective is not the ultimate goal. It is more a “product” built by three phases of the election process, definition, voting and results, respectively.

In the civilization phase, the “power” resembles a general idea of the right and necessary things that must be realised for its benefit. In the voting phase, “Power” is a manifestation of confidence in the establishment of that idea. As after the election results, the “power” becomes a political project with concrete powers. Therefore, politics and political power for the citizen have to do with ideas, confidence and projects, all related to investing in those who have the will for power, as the political moral force through which social realities are supposed to be changed.

This proper trajectory is not always easy to implement. Except, when the “power will” of those in the race is not the product of ideas, faith and projects, but the exclusive product of political ambition.

Therefore, to maintain a democratic republic, it is always important that the citizen have a political awareness and awareness to make the right solutions, which balance and control political forces from their slide into the fight for power as a final goal.

To make such a balance, the citizen needs a previous political idea. The political idea is not inborn, but it is taken advantage, whether by citizen knowledge about political systems, political concepts of right and wrong, political goals of thinking and about political personalities that are at the top of the respective bids.

But in addition to benefiting political ideas through surveillance and awareness, the citizen builds the idea mainly on concrete experiences. His experience with the system, with politicians, with his encounter with the state and power. It is even his experience, which causes much influence and is almost crucial to his sense of power and power that he will establish in government.

However, while there is crucial influence in definition, the experience only meets the dimension of the individual's personal orientation as a citizen, getting closer to what he controls, for example, the connection to a politician or subject. From the political link on the basis of experience, the individual as a citizen can benefit, but “the townman” as entities risks remaining unrepresented.

Therefore, political ideas that precede the legitimacy of the power that will govern are in essence the most important foundation for maintaining the republican democratic order, highlighting the citizens' great need for ideas.

Political ideas that are structured into ideology vary to many plains, from the citizens' ratio to sovereignty to everyday governance. So definition of political ideas is a prerequisite to extract “power” from personal resolution, towards communitarian relationship. By man's power over man, to the power of ideas that unites people. By the power of the privilege of fate, to the power of faith and merit.

In Kosovo, the definition of political ideas for which political parties stand constitute one of the largest policy deficits as a sphere and that deficit is the common denominator of all subjects. This lack of ideas in the range of those who manifest the “power will” has also left behind the needed socialization of citizens so that the latter can understand more clearly and contribute to the establishment of political ideas.

Hence, not only are political parties extremely poor in ideas today, but their poverty has also affected the lack of the citizens' political education. It is no dilemma that Kosovo citizens are politically determined for circumstantial causes rather than for political ideas. This way of determining, of course, responds to circumstances, but sidelines the establishment of “civias” as a pillar without which a republic cannot be developed again.

Consequently, to get out of the political cycle as power ambitions towards politics as the right way of governing, education and political socialisation are necessary. On this basis, not only do candidates and party members need to be educated politically about ideas they represent, but they should be able to transmit these ideas in a process of education along with measures they want to represent.

Therefore, political self-definition is the first step towards completing the long transition we have spent two decades now. And, political self-definition, it's not impossible. Except it cannot be done by “fat” of “Privilege”. It can be built by politicians who believe in their ideas in response to reality and who have concrete explanations of why a certain way of thinking produces proper results that even citizens need.

In the next text, I will list some fundamental elements of what a citizen might look like who has political ideas about “the publices”, which feels unrepresented by what political parties in Kosovo offer.