Editorial

Sami Moubayed

I was a bad citizen this morning. I did not vote in the municipality elections of Damascus.

Although I like voting, none of the candidates for my native Salhiyya neighbor-hood appealed to me. Better said, none of them made even the slightest effort to win my vote. Nobody sent me their political or administrative program. I did not get any election propaganda in my mailbox or inbox. I don’t vote for faces. And I don’t vote for people I do not know. The only campaigning done in Damascus was plastering photographs all over the city walls, along with colorful signs with the names of some very colorless candidates.