The biggest, most important non-political operation in the country - counting property, people and more - failed before it started on April XNUMXst. This, unfortunately, is not a joke: the reliability of the estimate that the census will succeed, in spite of everything, does not go beyond what is called a statistical error.

Experience has shown that when you miss the first button on your shirt, it is useless to hit everyone else - neither you nor the shirt will look like anything. Of course, for every nonsense we must have our own experience. The first button is called Ali Ahmeti, but it is still fastened to the throat. He is silent, instead of sitting down (he almost forgot to write - like a pope), if he no longer wants to voluntarily, and clearly and loudly explain to the public how and why the 2011 census failed. A lawsuit has been filed for the operation, and it is not the time to worry about the millions of state money spent (now at least we have money). The DUI leader was a direct participant - together with Nikola Gruevski, but he will now be listed in another column - in the organization, in the initial implementation and in the decision to terminate the census. And now he is in such a role. So, we were left without an irreplaceable experience that could (would) help - more than anything else - not to have the scandal happen again, maybe in an even worse version, not to look, together with the shirt (census) - ugly in front of ourselves and before the world.

To make matters worse, in this case the other buttons are out of place. Or no one believes they are. The government, ie SDSM, claims that the census will be conducted according to all relevant world standards, but left too big "holes" in the attempt - if there was any - to convince the public that there is nothing political in the operation. Exactly with the statements that this was not won and that a successful census will mean the defeat of Mickoski.

On the other hand, VMRO-DPMNE is working on only one button - the fall of the Prime Minister and leader of SDSM (the name is known), so if he wants to let everything else fail with him, including the census. The party demanded that we leave a fingerprint as proof that we had filled out the form ourselves, here, and not by word of mouth. Along with the vulgarity of the "imprint", the cultural demand also fell away. Now he will collect signatures to repeal the law that will be adopted by SDSM.

Where are the people in charge of conducting the census in this whole party debate - the State Statistical Office, for example. Instead of running the operation, they treat them like patients. It turns out that the parties conduct censuses, taught by the methodology in door-to-door campaigns.

Add to this the "results" of the census - the number of Albanians in the country is published with an accuracy of three decimals - then it really does not seem to make sense to waste so many people, teams and time (money, we said, does not matter) for to get the same numbers that the parties believe in. Or to get new ones that no one will believe. Only trust - neither law, nor methodology, nor anything else has that power - can save it, make the counting operation successful. And it was a great opportunity to count. Not for nothing, at least we would have seen how many - we are gone.

It is not excluded, however, that there will be a census. But if there is no elementary trust, especially in the institutions, we will look just like the wrongly buttoned shirt - as listed.