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BY Alfoc Rakaj Albania’s sluggish transition to a fully functioning market economy and a consolidated democracy has progress in parallel with the concentration of power and wealth into few urban areas. As a result, politics is increasingly big-city focused while local media, blinded by its full attention to daily political quarrels, has failed to sufficiently cover the rising tensions emerging away from the power center. Citizens outside of the ruling circle have become disillusioned with party affiliation, as they increasingly perceive politicians as self-serving, and the institutions they represent as incapable of delivering. Most of them remain voiceless and their…
