As in the previous few election confrontations, in these local elections we come up with a fairly clear picture of who is for what, with all the usual exaggerations or deficits in the offers characteristic of local competition between opponents in the election race. The big party "patrons" of the main three or four political formations in the country made a special effort to provide their local candidates with the national political narrative, in all the current confrontational details of both the current and the strategic "high politics" in Macedonia.

The last of the leaders who did that was Ali Ahmeti with his pre-election speech in Cair, who did his best to effectively inform his voters and the entire Macedonian public that the "green agenda" of DUI is only the election suit - two- three numbers bigger - dressed for the needs of the entire election theater, but that the real agenda of DUI is still essentially preoccupied with the nationalist preoccupations of the integratives, who still see the world mainly through the symbolism of ethnic identities, possibly through the filling of state functions that would be the result of political negotiations with their coalition partners. With VMRO-DPMNE and Gruevski for ten years they successfully developed their political and business elite, with SDSM they nationally upgraded the nationalist story to some degree higher, using the motto "one society for all У DUI staff".

And it is worth reminding that in all objective, but also partisan "mounted" public opinion polls that were published before these elections, the topics that are the main preoccupation of the citizens are completely "shifted" to the corpus of social and economic life of the population, with an increasing awareness of the factors that affect their daily lives (protection of the natural environment, corruption, living standards, etc.).

However, this does not mean that the citizens are not ready to evaluate the local election offer on a more abstract level: one is the "quantitative" assessment of what was specifically (not) done, and the other is the "qualitative" attitude of each of the voters. for the direction in which things are moving, which includes the history and perspective of major social processes. That is why party leaders spend so much time mixing up "grandmothers" (praising the offer of their specific local candidates) and "frogs" (praising their "general" policy, with fierce criticism of political opponents).

The election result in these local elections will be the "ideal environment" in which exactly these concrete and abstract assessments of the voters are. Crucial in this will be the votes of the "hard" party memberships in the municipalities and the usual party "clientele", whose quantity, with relative accuracy, can still be predicted; but the large number of those voters who think "qualitatively", without the party obligation for whom to vote. That electoral decisive number again comes down to a couple of hundreds of thousands of voters who, as a rule, should have a more rational, more emotional approach to their voting. And for many of them, it will be more a choice of who NOT to vote for than who to vote for. If, at all, they decide to go to the polls - what is the pre-election mobilization trick of every election campaign.

Traditionally, the Macedonian "electoral" society is quite disciplined and democratically responsible. Even when there are no immediate dramatic reasons that would motivate a large turnout, people in high, legitimate numbers come out to cast their ballots. In the local elections in 2017, the turnout in the first round of voting was 60 percent, in 2013 the turnout was 67 percent, in 2009 - 58 percent and so on. I guess it will be the same in these local elections, whose campaign, so far, passes in a generally fair and democratic atmosphere. People will come out and vote, there is a "miracle" of candidates, the majority choice will be rational. This is how democracy survives.