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Editorial: Albania’s broken democracy needs constructive and inclusive action

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Albania’s democracy is broken, an annual report by Freedom House tells us this week. But those who closely follow Albanian affairs are not surprised. Negative trends have been taking root for a long time and politics as usual will clearly not fix the problem. Albania’s democracy has never been really strong, but one would expect that with the passage of time things would get better. They haven’t. The Socialist government led by Edi Rama asked the Albanian people to give it a full majority in return for better governance, prosperity for all and lower taxes for the majority of the…

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