Vital societies are those that seek change and do not remain prey to closed systems, they are those that drastically fluctuate the percentages of votes to X or Y party from one election to another, giving a strong message to the parties!
Our program of youth political education centered on the opening of EU membership negotiations of our country has exceeded the 7th lecture with lecturer Adriatik Lapaj. The main title of this session was “The opening of the political race as a need for a new political generation aiming at European values”.
The participants were introduced to the peculiarities of the forms of state organizations, as a parenthesis of the lecture as well as to get to the heart of the discussion; configuration of the Parliamentary Republic. So, the Parliament, the Legislature or governance through the elected by the people! The discussion did not revolve around the question of whether this form is the most suitable for us, but how efficiently we apply it!
In principle, the form is appropriate because the citizens elect representatives who make up the parliament, and the latter is the controlling mechanism that does not allow the self (individual) to have power over it. MPs and ministers are merely executive officers and delegated to represent the will of the people by drafting laws for them.
A very efficient and simplified process of building the government, in Albania we see that it is deformed at the beginning when the parties or coalitions of parties that receive the vote of the citizens in the election and that come out automatically with a list of elected officials do not follow the principles defined in Constitution (backbone of the state) for the establishment of the government. Instead of the elected people electing the prime minister and mandating him and the government, it is actually the party leader, the prime minister, who mandates the deputies by distorting the system.
This distortion begins when the lists of candidates for MPs are drawn up by the party chairman, “assigning” their fate according and making the future MPs obey the chairman and not the electorate, since it is he (the chairman/prime minister) who can also remove them by not adding them to the list next time. This is how the system is taken and held hostage to the function of the leader, completely contrary to the principles of the “Parliamentary Republic” organization, and the voters become merely statistics and not the real power to bring about changes, making it difficult to distinguish the good from the abusive. .
On these foundations of discussion, the arguments to improve this situation revolved around the principle of opening the political race which would first allow to “heal the wound” created by the burnt votes because the division of the country into regions means that you do not get a mandate even if you are voted in mass; mandates which could give voice to the many problems of the people in the Parliament. Secondly, competition imposes an increase in quality, and if there is no competition at the first level, that of decision-making for the election of representatives in the Parliament, there will be no competition at other levels either (general director, regional director, clerk, etc.), this is how nepotism, corruption, and conflict of interests arise.
Competition in the electoral system makes it possible for people not to be tied to a party irrevocably, but to an offer, as well as not having problems to face the prime minister if the policy that the latter will adopt is contrary to the opinion of the citizens.
Vital societies are those that seek change and do not remain prey to closed systems, those that drastically fluctuate the percentages of votes towards X or Y party from one election to another, giving a strong message to the parties. And also, if there was an open race where the people choose their favorite and not that of the leader, this deputy would have power from the electorate and, consequently, responsibility.
The regionalization of votes for the effect of the mandate that is applied in Albania does not take into account the fact that the deputy elected from X region will not vote in the Parliament on laws and policies only for that region but for the whole nation, so he/she must be voted in the entire nation through open competition. This would be the real and final democracy guaranteed by significantly reducing the crime from politics as a criminal group that has influence in a region, the power of influence and intimidation will fall if the vote extends to the whole of Albania.
As long as the party works for the leader and not for the ideal, the law and the candidate, the democratic and representative system is flawed.
Thus, Albania will become part of the EU when it implements the principles of the Union, although as an individual you can manage to integrate even by fleeing in a raft, but this does not bring value to the nation which is well positioned in the middle of the Mediterranean, in the middle of mismanaged goods!
