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Ditari i Opozitës

Since... what if...

Politiko 2025-05-19 15:05:20

Since... what if...

By Ilda Zhulali/

In every country, organizing elections is the duty and responsibility of the government. This includes not only ensuring the technical aspects, but also guaranteeing citizens' trust in the integrity of the process.

However, in Albania, this concept has undergone a profound distortion since 2015, when responsibility for organizing elections was paradoxically shifted to the opposition.

Instead of the government being held accountable and responsible for any problems and failure to guarantee free and fair elections, the political discourse has focused on demanding that the opposition "protect its vote."

This logical reversal has transformed the role of the opposition from a watchdog of power to an actor that must compensate and replace state institutions. In practice, this has led to a systemic disorder: the government evades responsibility, while the opposition faces unreasonable pressures to guarantee something it does not control.

Two Alternative Paths to Returning Things to Normal

1. Returning Responsibility to the Government

The simplest and most logical solution is to return to common sense: the government should be the primary entity accountable for elections. This means that it should be the target of public debate and the force of law for manipulation, pressure, vote buying, and undermining of elections.

2. Since the first one does not happen, then let's reform the system, by making legal changes that allow the opposition to create parallel structures to guarantee elections.

These institutions should be financed from the state budget, guaranteeing that a portion of citizens' taxes are also used for vote protection, and not just for vote theft.

Since taxes are used to steal from us, what if we also used them to protect us?!

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