What has been happening to Skopje for a long time is something that no Skopje resident wanted when they voted for Danela Arsovska in the last local elections, hoping that she would do something better than her predecessors, that the city would be contemporary, modern, functional in all aspects necessary for normal urban living.

Instead, we got a city on the brink of collapse, with tons of trash at every turn, with collapsed public transportation that left citizens baking in the heat for hours, not knowing how to get where they were going, with unbuilt (but promised) boulevards, streets, bridges and with unfinished started projects. The free transport, which attracted the citizens the most, was reduced to - no transport.

The rosy dream for beautiful Skopje has become a nightmare, in which angry, revolted and completely disappointed citizens are waiting for a miracle to happen and someone to "return" their city to them. Instead, they are becoming more and more aware every day that the city leadership, side by side with the councilors in the City of Skopje Council, does not care for them and does not think about their needs.

Arsovska, who declared herself as a top manager, for these three years of her mandate, she only managed to scold everyone, show "muscles" to dissenters, spite VMRO-DPMNE and change directors.

Even the best connoisseurs of the situation in the city and in public enterprises, if asked by someone who is the current director of, for example, Water and Sewerage, they will not be able to say, because the first people are dismissed and new ones are appointed at the speed of light . More than 30 people have changed during the three-year mayorship of Arsovska, in some companies as many as five. Even if one of them knew how to do something, he didn't have time to show what he knew.

In a situation where public enterprises are on the verge of collapse, they lack money and vehicles and staff, and they only have debts, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to change the situation in a few months.

The "best" manager should have known that a new director wouldn't fix things if he didn't have the resources to work and if he was under the strict control of the city, to the extent that he wasn't even allowed to make statements to the public without her permission. He should have known that if people with integrity and management expertise are not appointed, with appropriate qualifications, but friends of friends, what is happening to us now in Skopje will happen. And of course he should have known that success requires cooperation, communication, the opinion of others, and tolerance.

The city got stuck in the "mud" because of the self-righteousness and arrogance of Arsovska and her lack of interest in recognizing the anger and despair of the citizens. And in that respect, the mayor is very lucky that she hasn't had a problem yet. So those angry citizens should take her by the hand and take her for a walk to see the city, as it has allowed it to become in the past few years. To see the garbage and smell the stench, to wait an hour or two at a bus stop for the "22" to arrive, for example, and then to drive with it at plus 40 without air conditioning. Provided that the vehicle does not break down at the final destination. Maybe then he will understand the plight of his fellow citizens and understand why he should resign. Maybe he will finally understand to which "deredze" he led the people of Skopje.

The change of directors and accusations to the councilors (although, I will repeat that they also have their part in the chaos) is just an attempt by Arsovska to take the blame off her neck, if she even feels guilty for the misery in which Skopje is living. From the comfort of an armchair, from an air-conditioned car and from a position of strength, the situation probably doesn't seem so dire to her. And who knows, maybe she is still convinced that she is successfully managing the city?

The only hope left for the people of Skopje is for the municipalities to take over the credentials of some of the public enterprises, as the mayors demand, and for the Government to take care of JSP. At least that's what the citizens really deserve.