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Territorial Reform, Krasniqi: 4 tribes send their representatives to the Municipal Council
2026-02-05 22:06:55 / POLITIKË
In the debate on Territorial Reform on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN, analyst Afrim Krasniqi expressed skepticism about the possibility of reaching a strategic solution, emphasizing that the process is much more complex than simply changing the administrative map. According to him, no political party currently has a draft ready and decision-making will face political interests, both within the majority and the opposition.
"First, I don't believe that any party has a ready draft, neither can have one. Second, I don't believe that it is easy to make a decision. If the electoral reform is approved by four people, usually two or four in Albania, the territorial reform has very big interests and each MP will seek his own area of influence and area and even within the parties there are big debates. If we are going to keep the structure and organization that we have now, we will interfere in the constitution and if we enter the constitution then what gives the party life when we interfere in the constitution because there are some proposals to enter it in the constitution and then we go to the other element; to services, this is also very complicated because it is true that some laws are still in parliament, for example the law of the prefect, for example or others that are on the parliamentary agenda while you are doing territorial reform. That is, you cannot regulate and dress up the entire local government and then just say we will simply put the name on it. So it is much more complex," he said on Off the Record with Andrea Danglini on A2 CNN.
According to Krasniqi, territorial reform requires the amendment of at least 30 laws, including possible interventions in the Constitution, which makes the process difficult to implement in a short period of time.
"I predict that there should be at least 30 laws that are changed. The question is, do they do this kind of period? Now we are talking about an Albanian reality. We are talking about a political class that is used to making last-minute decisions and making them for the next day. I don't think there is a politician in Albania who thinks about what Albania will be like after 20 years. They usually think up to the number of weeks and months of the next election and I don't think there is anyone who thinks about how I would behave if I were in the opposition or in the majority," he said on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN.
One concern he highlighted on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN is the example of some municipalities where four tribes send their representatives to the Municipal Council. This, for Krasniqi, is a mockery of representative democracy. According to him, the municipality must break away from tribal logic and transform into a real institution of local government and functional democracy.
"There is a city in a district center in Albania where four tribes out of five elections send their representatives and are decided by a formal political party name where the DP, the SP, never wins there because each tribe delegates people. Calling these a municipal council is a mockery of the concept of democracy. It is absurd, it is meaningless, because this is also done publicly. We all know this. We must remove the municipality from the tribe, we must remove it from the small things and make it an institution of a representative and governing democracy."
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