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2021 elections, choice or status quo?

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Faced with questions from young people, professors and experts in the field of communication and politics expressed their views on the April 25 elections and the current reality in the country.

Although 30 years have passed, Albanian democracy continues to be fragile. Its political system, human rights, economy, culture etc. were analyzed by Ermal Hasimja, a political commentator and opinionist specializing in political representation and communication; Jonila Godole, the director of IDMC as well as a lecturer of communication and analyst in several political shows over the 2021 elections, and Ervin Goci, a lecturer, activist, who is actively engaged in the exercise of the right to vote.

"2021 elections are a challenge to the possibility of change despite the classification of authoritarian status quo. They also challenge apathy and fatality."
Hasimja
"Today as we speak we have no state institution or other powers beyond the executive to be legitimate, functional and independent. The vote in this case is not simply a will expressed in favor of a political alternative, but it is the only political behavior that can be restored as an institution only by massification and demonstrating the power of the masses."
Goci
IDMC

IDMC

Institute for Democracy, Media & Culture is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization established in 2014 in Tirana, Albania, which inspires and supports projects that foster democratic values, a stronger media and society's reflection on its collective memory.

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