As for the new moderators, I remember that we had a discussion about that in the Croatian section of the forum a few years ago.
At first we had a moderator but then we were left without a moderator and theymos asked us for our opinion on who would be a good new moderator.
He was obviously asking the local community to nominate someone whom everyone trusts and who is a respected member of the local community.
We had several candidates but we failed to reach an agreement and later that debate stopped and nothing happened.
Later we asked a question about the new moderator for the Croatian section in Meta but we did not get any answer from the admins.
I guess the main reason for this is the fact that there are not many active members and activities in the Croatian section of the forum, and we also don't have a lot of problems with spam.