Municipal Elections: Competence or Continued Failure?

As municipal elections approach in Palestine, the question is no longer: who will win? But rather the more dangerous question: will we reproduce the same failure?
The municipality is a fundamental service institution that affects the daily lives of citizens, yet for years it has been treated as a field for quotas, a social reward, or a platform for gathering votes.
The result is well-known: councils change, performance collapses, and services worsen.
The problem begins before the ballot box. The flaw does not start with the citizen, but with the committees for selecting lists. And that the citizen's choices should not be limited to bad and worse, but between competence... and the most competent.
Names are presented based on who "brings votes" not who has the ability to manage, and who has a popular base not who has a project, program, and experience.
Thus, whoever gets the votes wins... and the city loses new years of chaos and poor planning.
The mayor is not a social dignitary; we want a mayor with a high academic degree, real experience in management and planning, a firm leadership personality, and a diplomat capable of representing the city internally and externally.
We do not want a president who justifies incompetence, nor a council that hides behind circumstances.
The municipal council is a team of experts, not a list of courtesies. The municipality needs engineers, accountants, lawyers, specialists in management and services. It does not need names without specialization, nor members whose role is applause or recording positions.
A city managed without experience... is a city managed towards failure.
The criterion must change; the criterion is not: who has more votes, but: who has the ability to implement?
Not who raises a slogan, but who transforms the plan into fieldwork on the ground.
In times of crisis, it's either a municipality that leads, builds, and creates solutions, or a municipality that becomes an additional burden on the citizen.
Municipal elections are not a political game, but a test of awareness and responsibility.
We want a council that leads, not is led; builds, not justifies; and seeks solutions, not excuses.
As for reproducing the same councils with the same mentalities...
That is a sure recipe for continued failure, and the city can no longer bear it.