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We will finally vote!
2025-04-17 16:05:21 / IDE
I started my battle to get those living abroad to vote back in the distant year of 2009! At that time, not only was it not an issue, but it was probably not even in the imagination of most politicians or those who are candidates today and a political offer for Albanians living abroad! In fact, some, not only are they an old offer, but they are not even an offer at all for Albanians living abroad, because in their lives they have not had a single day of experience as an immigrant.
Living in a European country, even as an immigrant, allowed us to be a step ahead of many political processes that were considered unrealistic in Albanian politics. From 2009 until today, when it became a reality for Albanians living abroad to vote, I have not stopped contributing to making it a reality and in the most efficient and democratic way possible. I have written endless articles, given interviews and even held political positions when I had a political commitment, albeit brief, so that the voting process for immigrants would be carried out in the best democratic form with known, simple, uncomplicated methods and it seems that the criteria foreseen in the law for the exercise of the vote were respected.
Now immigrants have the opportunity to vote and are equal to those who live in Albania, being equal in the exercise of the fundamental democratic right such as the right to vote. However, immigrants should not have the illusion that this is a process that ends here. Like any process that is applied for the first time, it needs continuous changes and improvements.
What is important is the fact that the trajectory of this process will only be progressive and there is no longer any possibility of going back, perhaps even with the illusion of a possible new denial. The right to vote in democratic countries has only known progressive trajectories, at first only a few had the right to vote, then only men had the right to vote, until in the end this right became universal, giving the right to vote to every citizen who turns 18 on election day. In fact, now in many countries, including our Parliamentary Republic, even those who have been convicted and are serving sentences due to the approach they have had to the applicable legal norms in force with the principle of "equal law for all" have the right.
In my journey of the battle for the exercise of the right to vote where immigrants live, I have known many others who have considered it an important and just cause like me, but none of them are today on the lists of political entities to represent in a political and democratic way, at least the cause in which they believed.
Political entities have fraudulently given this right to immigrants, giving them only the first half of the right "to vote" and denying them the second part "the right to be voted for" which is democratically more important than the first.
Albanian immigrants on the lists of political entities must choose again between the Benjamins of the party leaders, who have more than one mandate, live in Tirana and want a second and often even a third mandate, proving that their political engagement is only a profession that provides them with a good income, to be paid for the work of an MP that they often perform poorly and rarely do not perform at all, turning into mere puppets to realize the goals and interests of their leaders.
The Albanian Parliament from 2013 to date has turned into an environment of non-representation for the sovereign as it should be in its constitutional mission, but an environment of "deaf" and "mute", often we do not even know their names and we have not even heard their voices for entire legislatures to understand whether they can at least speak Albanian or not.
The composition of the lists of political entities in these elections clearly proves that they are not interested in a serious and proportional representation of the voters. It is enough to look at the fact that in a campaign at surreal levels they came and asked for votes from immigrants with the excuse of representing them, who are already part of an establishment, some of them have never been immigrants, have never lived abroad, but have promised that with a second or even third mandate, living in Tirana and from Tirana they will represent immigrants! They will certainly do as they have done until the right to vote became a reality, without seriously addressing any of the problems that immigrants encounter in the countries where they live.
Desperately, to catch the train that these politicians or political entities have missed with immigrants, they tried to improvise pseudo programs dedicated to them. They forget that the most important and easiest project to implement is not to consider the Homeland as their private property, but as part of every Albanian, regardless of where they live, and to make us feel safe and proud of our state institutions, regardless of who has the “turn” to govern. In fact, power in Albania has not been and has never been considered a governance model, but a matter of turns, sometimes “Us” and sometimes “You”. This is what some in the Opposition are saying, saying that this time it is “Our Turn”.
Immigrants should be aware that exercising their right to vote where they live is only the beginning of a long political battle. They should continue to fight for generations if possible to have their legitimate democratic right to be elected and to be direct representatives in the Albanian Parliament.
As I have said on other occasions, Albanian parents should continue to raise their children with the inspiration to continue their natural connection to the Homeland, so that the option to return and contribute directly does not take away from their dreams for a moment. Immigrant parents should inspire their children where they live to realize their dreams, which unfortunately remain on the shelf, because time and reality do not allow them to make them a reality.
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