AZE.US
REAL party leader Natig Jafarli said the collapse of functioning political institutions eventually turns into a very physical, everyday problem for ordinary people.
In a Facebook post, Jafarli recalled his experience from the last parliamentary election campaign in Keshla, saying it was extremely difficult to collect signatures there.
According to him, many residents did not want to engage at all and even turned campaign workers away from their doors, telling them they did not need elections and would not sign.
Jafarli argued that when elections no longer matter to people and the institution itself stops functioning, the consequences do not remain confined to politics. Sooner or later, he wrote, they spill into daily life in the form of failing infrastructure, disorder and a degrading urban environment.
He drove the point home with a stark image, saying that in such a system sewage water eventually rises to people’s throats and a foul smell spreads everywhere.
The broader message of his post was that apathy toward elections carries a price. In his telling, when representation does not work and public pressure disappears, city problems are left to rot until they become impossible to ignore.
For Jafarli, Keshla was not just an example from a campaign trail. It was a warning that broken politics does not stay abstract for long. It ends up in the street, in the yard, and in the basic conditions people live with every day.