
The Chairwoman of the Culture, Tourism and Diaspora Committee, Ina Zhupa, has raised concerns regarding the way the diaspora is being treated by the government.
Ina Zhupa has accused the Rama government of unstable and deeply politicized treatment of the diaspora.
She emphasized that each mandate has produced a new structure, a disintegrated institution, without any long-term project for the representation of Albanians abroad.
According to Zhupa, diaspora institutions have been used for electoral purposes, as she emphasized that ambassadors, often former MPs or former mayors, have taken on roles that, as she put it, "not even ChatGPT can find."
"I have deeper concerns about the way the 'Rama' government has treated the diaspora, and this is clearly evident by never having a project on which institution will deal with the diaspora. It is enough to recall some very simple facts, that every time there has been a new electoral situation, the system has changed as to who will deal with the diaspora."
In 2013-2017, the Diaspora Directorate was dissolved in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Diaspora Agency was created under the Prime Minister's authority and then merged. The Minister of State for the Diaspora was created and merged. A directorate was returned to the ministry's authority. Every time the mandate has changed, you have not understood what will happen to the diaspora, but also where the diaspora will be directed for legal and political issues. Imagine what difficulties a representative of the diaspora in the world will have. Not even GPT chat can find it.
"The only meetings with the diaspora are those when you used the state, the embassies, with ambassadors in the front row, where you went as a government and spoke as a party to seek votes for the Socialist Party. And this law has politicized all diaspora institutions, has changed the Diaspora Coordinating Council from being a determining one to a suggesting one, has strengthened the role of ambassadors who today have former MPs, former mayors, or analysts who you find a job with ," Zhupa said in the commission.
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