Enio Me\u0161trovi\u0107 and Richard<\/a>, so different from each other, symbolize this year's local elections in the best way.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOnce upon a time, before there was a modern state, borders and passports, such different people were called foreigners. They spoke in incomprehensible language, dressed ridiculously and behaved strangely. The beginnings of tourism on the Adriatic still inherited this old-fashioned attitude towards the different. If someone used the sea for swimming, and especially if he did it naked, you knew immediately that he was a stranger. They won these elections differently \u2013 the paradox is logical \u2013 because they were close to us, not foreign. They were closer and more understandable to us than the ones we called ours. How many of the 200,000 votes for Toma\u0161evi\u0107 do you think are those who voted for Bandi\u0107 until yesterday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a stranger becomes close to you, then the real question is: what have we been involved in so far? In fully mediatized politics. In hyperbolic media productions deprived of real political content. In the media illusion created by money that local governments transferred to the media in their area. In principle, the most important thing is the campaign: it can spoil everything that is deserved and achieve everything that is undeserved. Politics was reduced to a quick media reaction, to timely rented advertising space, to making noise when you are in trouble, to covering up, to propaganda, to everything but politics. It is no wonder that communicologists and PR experts are increasingly commenting on politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The different ones seem more normal in this election. As if they are at least one foot on the ground, they are more realistic, coming from reality rather than from the cathode-ray tube. Of course, they also use the media, some very successfully, but you have the impression that the media are a tool, not the starting point of their policy. They seem more convincing because they are prepared outside the media field, because they have political content, and if you will, also because they do not reduce political strategy to media strategy. Neither a democratic politician nor an actor exists without an audience. Still, a good actor never prepares for an audience. He prepares his role away from the public eye and largely in solitude. When they say that he \u201cstole the show\u201d, be sure that the spotlight only shone on that what was created much earlier. Somehow it seems to me that this is exactly what connects our different in this election: building a content based politics, for sure not in complete solitude or secrecy, but certainly before its mediatization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the very other end is an SDP member, Ante Frani\u0107, a man you couldn\u2019t say for sure if he was a candidate for mayor of Split or a neon self-promotion that rejects you rather than draws you to a cafe. Andrej Filipovi\u0107 already structurally did not have a chance, but also because he was visibly preparing for performances. And when you are visibly preparing for performances, this can be observed easily. IDS leased more space in Glas Istre with public money. In the second round, \u0160koro and his men started real internet mining: they had to list the budgets of half of the NGO\u2019s in Croatia, add them up for the last eight years, and then separate the money coming from abroad, subsuming it under special category: \u201cSoros\u201d. Most has long since chosen a similar development strategy: relying on media-exposed people, locally sharing the political franchise with complete strangers, and probably not, at the same time, moving much away from the party\u2019s initial 400 members. There is no way it can return to Metkovi\u0107. Everything went bust on the day when Bo\u017eo Petrov, after promising to give everything for Metkovi\u0107, removed himself up from the position of mayor after two years and went straight to Zagreb. Davor Plenkovi\u0107\u2019s HDZ is increasingly agreeing with this bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The different ones, at the time, still offered some political content. Even when it seemed epochal obsolete, as in the case of Knin Mayor Marko Jeli\u0107, whose insistence that \u201call citizens of the county should be equal and treated equally\u201d is reminiscent of the ideas of the French Revolution that took place some 200 years ago, such political content seemed far more realistic than, say, Filipovi\u0107\u2019s vaccine factories. When Goran Pauk, now the former prefect of \u0160ibenik-Knin County, was asked what had happened, he cited the \u201cmaterial fatigue\u201d. To the same question, his party friend \u017deljko Buri\u0107, who won in the same city where Pauk lost, answered with both feet on the ground, according to the motto \u201cNew generations are coming who are not interested in our tricks\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The different and different from each other as well. There is little that ideologically connects Marko Jeli\u0107 from Knin and Mo\u017eemo! from Zagreb, and almost nothing that connects Ivan Radi\u0107 from Osijek and Filip Zori\u010di\u0107 from Pula. Again, we get the impression they are at the same job. Maybe politics as usual really bored the majority. It is impossible, and unnecessary, to predict the development of the situation in each of these several hundred municipalities and cities. Let us now let go of sophisticated political science and comprehensive communicological analyzes. It will be enough to react like when they prepare lamb in Moroccan, with a handful of spices, and for years we have always prepared it exclusively traditionally, \u201cbraised with peas\u201d. You can't say much, except, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of different\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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