The change of the election law for the communal autonomy election in 2002, which introduced the direct election of monitors, mayors, and city presidents had both many supporters as well as many opponents. The supporters of this change believed that the reinforcement of the executive organ position will solve many of the hitherto problems associated with the functioning of the local government. They hoped it will stabilize the monitors’ authority, reduce the conflicts with the communal council, accelerate the decision making and above all it will again win the residents’ attention for the local problems. The opponents of the new solutions were afraid of the consequences of possible personal mistakes, i.e. giving relatively a lot of authority in the hands of the wrong people. The first election with the changed election law didn’t bring any significant increase in the voters engagement. The main point of the deliberations in this paper is the analysis of the factors which may affect the behaviour of the residents in the future election. The author recognizes two groups of factors: the system factors (for example: the political culture and the condition of the so called “civic society”) and the local and circumstantial factors (for example: the relationship between the monitor and the communal council, the sense of subjectivity – the alienation of the residents, the perspicuity of the present monitor’s politic, the phenomenon of making political the decisions of authority associated with the local problems, the local conflicts). The author makes an assumption that the voters engagement in the council’s problems will increase in time as the effect of the strengthen executive authority in the commune as the personalization of the responsibility for decisions is the expected by the society direction of changes.