Albanian running for deputy in Oslo (Photo)

He's a real school. To Albanian, it is the school dialect and the official language a version of it. He says this jokingly, but he leaves no room for pride.

It has left 18 years and now Bujar Shala is in position to speak as the first Albanian on an official list of the Democratic Party in Norway as candidate for MP.

“In Norway, we are on campaign time, parliamentary elections are on September 11th, but ballot boxes open as of August 10th. And people can go vote a month ago. In my case it is a case that is the first time we have an Albanian and real opportunities are absolute. The numbers are, but to accomplish this, we need civic commitment”, Shala shows.

His desire for politics has started since he was a member of the municipal council in Oslo. There he wondered why not politics. You were not afraid of being a foreigner in a country that mostly consists of foreigners. Even knowing that our community there is not active at the polls.

A major problem we have there is that the community doesn't vote. Albanians attend 10/15 per cent. And given that you have a month to vote and not vote, that says a lot about us, because it takes away an opportunity to be where decisions are made. To get Albanians to vote, that's my goal. They give it to anybody they want, but since they haven't come out so far, when they get out they're gonna give me”, Shala says.

His programme is the same as that of the party he is running for. When he gets back to Norway, he's going to essentially carry out the campaign, and a very different style than what we have here.

“There are forbidden rallying. No flags, banners, posters. Permission to distribute tracts. Most of the campaign is a house-to-house meeting, door-to-door meeting in small groups”, Shala says.

Wanting to stress how thin the limit of change of preference is that the electorate there, in line with interests, provides an example.

The centrist party, the peasants' party, says, is for rural areas. Most farmers there are usually members of the farm, with between three and five percent. While the wolf is an endangered species in certain areas, protected by law is eating their sheep. And the ruling party also say we will follow the law, because this is the endangered species. There's nothing we can do to the wolf, to deal with the sheep. The citizens' anger amounts to the point that the rural party from three to five percent as usual always has been at fifteen percent. So ten percent of the electorate moves from one side to the other for a wolf”, Shala explains.

Someone might say it's easy for Bujar to speak now after 18 years of being there, where he was educated built a career. He himself does not claim to have determined his succession, but the king was chance. Sidmos when he remembers the beginning of his departure.

My mother, after Rahmet because she no longer lives. Some help comes from Norway, and one of them is very bad that they call the doctor. She sees it and says, if you want to be alive you have to leave Albania yesterday, not tomorrow. comes to Norway. Mom writes a hepirizia and as soon as she gets to the emergency there she's told, the doctor who checked on you. What was it like? Albania and 93 is North Korea today. She had only one stethoscope. They take the mama and they say, these things you found with a stethoscope, we can't find with computers. They take it on the wire and give it a three-month specialization. Return to Skopje, maintains contact with its Norwegian colleagues. Then there were 97 known problems. Those doctors watching TV every day put Mom on the phone and they say, "We know you want your kids to get school outside. Are you coming? We need doctors like yours. Mother started procedures and the rest is history”, the next candidate for MP.

The rest is the story of someone who modestly tries not to be just an immigrant but to show that it can also emerge in a difficult area like politics. But also engage the Albanian community in this Scandinavian country, leading young people to be part of Norwegian location. / TCH/