We need to insist on elections fought on substance
Democracy is not about changing leaders but exchanging, and fighting for, ideas.
|09.06.2017
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If parties of the so-called PAN coalition have one thing in common then it is that they represent a political class driven by prospects of personal gains and benefits, rather than based on principles and ideas of governance.
No matter how much these parties try to wrap up their election messages in novel political communication practices or images that attempt to represent them as close to the people, it doesn’t disguise their disregard of ordinary citizens.
These are parties that while they do not have a problem with funding their campaign with our taxes, their prime ministerial candidates refuse to be challenged or to publicly debate one another, which is a fundamental obligation they hold toward society.
This system that has produced ideas that government is equal to economic privilege, or wealth, or greed. For as long as our political class feels and acts entitled, government will not be associated with what it truly is — service.
Besa Luci
Besa Luci is K2.0’s editor-in-chief and co-founder. Besa has a master’s degree in journalism/magazine writing from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism in Columbia, U.S..
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This story was originally written in English.