{"id":762,"date":"2013-02-15T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/mk\/index.php\/2013\/02\/15\/the-profile-of-my-profile\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T11:28:36","slug":"the-profile-of-my-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/2013\/02\/15\/the-profile-of-my-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Profile of my Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-761\" src=\"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/idscs_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/idscs_logo.png 721w, https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/idscs_logo-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) and the Institute for Democracy (IDSCS) have started a series of mutual activities for the Local Elections 2013, like public opinion surveys, monitoring the electoral programs and campaigns, the media and the electoral administration on the election day. As a beginning activity, the public opinion on the characteristics constituting people\u2019s choice of a mayor and a councilor list was surveyed.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The survey showed that the citizens want fair and professional mayors. Honesty is the most important value that a mayor should possess for one third of the citizens (31.9%). Other important values according to the citizens are diligence, tolerance and responsibility, while the least important are environment protection and patriotism.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The citizens would mostly want their mayor to be a professional politician (40.0%), while other desirable professions are businessman and teacher\/ professor.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Citizens find important to have more young people up to 27 years of age (45.0%) and women (31.1%), among the mayoral candidates on the Local Elections 2013. They find the presence of candidates from other ethnic communities less important, while the majority of citizens would not vote for a mayoral candidate from other ethnic community.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The citizens state that they will vote for quality programs (56.7%) and mayoral candidates (33.0%). In terms of the councilor lists, for the large majority of citizens (72.1%), what matters is not the sympathy towards certain political party, but the quality of the councilor candidates and the election program offered.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>According to the citizens, the main priorities in the mayoral programs should be local economic development and urban planning.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The majority of citizens think that the parties insufficiently include (85.2%) and take into consideration the ideas of the citizens (69.8%).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The public opinion survey is conducted through a phone inquiry, made on 13 and 14 February 2013, on a representative example of 425 respondents, +\/- 5%.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The complete analysis can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/profilot-na-mojot-gradonachalnik.pdf\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC) and the Institute for Democracy (IDSCS) have started a series of mutual activities for the Local Elections 2013, like public opinion surveys, monitoring the electoral programs and campaigns, the media and the electoral administration on the election day. As a beginning activity, the public opinion on the characteristics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1161,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29977,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/29977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idscs.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}