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Is it possible to patronize the vote of the diaspora?
2024-12-10 17:49:52 / IDE
At the meeting of the leadership of the Socialist Party, its chairman Edi Rama asked his party to identify all diaspora voters. It seems clear that the vote of immigrants is the prime minister's main concern. Immediately after this order, discussions and attitudes arose, accusing Edi Rama of setting up a system similar to that of the patron Nazis in Albania.
Of course, voting patronage is within the limits of legality. The majority calls it the normal electoral procedure that every party applies in other states, even though other practices are slightly different and the political culture is also different. Because getting all the voters' data about where they work, where they live and what problems they have, is certainly a strong weapon in the hands of the government, considering that the vote in Albania is mainly clientelistic, and people's fate depends on politics. While in other democratic countries work, economy and many other things are independent from the government. For the opposition, the patronage system is completely an electoral manipulation.
And this time the opposition has raised the alarm about the patronage of the diaspora vote. Not only DP, but also the new political parties which have great hope in the vote of Albanians in emigration as they hope that they will judge more with a kind of idealism, unlike what happens inside Albania. But the question that arises is whether the vote of the diaspora can be patronized? Their vote seems to be the strong battle of all political parties seeing that the parties have an already crystallized electorate in Albanians living in Albania.
Outside of Albania, it is known that there is another Albania. There are almost as many voters as there are within the borders. But not only that, most likely their political behavior is probably unknown and may be different. Interests, culture or beliefs make voters outside Albania a difficult target group for politics.
Even the electoral campaign that will take place for the next elections will have two registers in terms of rhetoric. Or rather, it should be. Two registers, because otherwise politics will have to speak to Albanians living in Albania and differently to those who live outside of it. It is also not yet known how much their participation in the voting will be. All these elements make the diaspora vote a big unknown.
At first glance, it seems as if the vote of Albanian immigrants cannot be guided or controlled, since they have already built their lives outside Albania and do not connect their fate with politics here. Perhaps they have a different culture of political behavior and this makes them more autonomous. However, a large part of them still have their families here, have unresolved problems in their country. In this sense, the government has every opportunity to patronize their vote.
Given that the opposition has much less tools in its hands than the power to campaign outside Albania, then the vote of the diaspora will be an even more difficult target for it than the vote of the Albanians living here. Therefore, the approval of the vote of the diaspora, for which the opposition gave its vote, is a big bet for the Democratic Party. It can be a great chance but also a 'boomerang' that he will probably regret. However, the vote of the diaspora makes the electoral race in 2025 even more interesting and curious from a political point of view. Because anything can happen!
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