Study: Where do the new Albanian deputies live? Figures show...

Are they chosen to represent the area? They made campaign promises and swore to stay close to the electors? Our state pays MPs' trips to their electoral zone and office spending to keep contacts between MPs and voters.

Despite being not elected by citizens but appointed by parties from proportional lists, despite the sense of having electoral offices of candidates/ MPs in a proportional voting system.

How many deputies are there? Here is an interesting detail coming from monitoring elections and parliament from the Institute of Political Studies: 70% of MPs reside in Tirana, 64 elected MPs in other counties reside in Tirana.

So Tirana represents 70% of parliament, although in our Tirana voting system as a city (not a district) represents only 14% of the total parliamentary mandates in the Assembly.

The second largest city with “very” MPs are Durres, with 4.2% deputies of the population, followed by Shkodra and Fier, with 3.5%, Elbasan Vlora with 2,.8%, etc. There are circuits like Kukes where no elected MP in 2017 lives in the district, or like Debar, where only 1 of the 6 elected deputies lives in the district.

Another interesting fact: 140 MPs reside in only 17 out of 61 municipalities -- that is, in only 27% of the local entities of the Republic of Albania -- although they have been voted as part of the multi-ethnic list throughout the country and by all citizens. None of the deputies of the small winning parties with mandates in the elections reside in the electoral zone they are elected to.

Another interesting fact: In just one palace in Tirana, in a modern construction area, four deputies from three different parties live, thus more than the number of deputies in the Kukes district.

Could there be a relationship and accountability between tourists, who reside in Tirana and who at best spend the weekend in their electoral zone, or among the MPs living under conditions, circumstances, environment and much higher and much better comfort than the residents of their electoral zone? The parties say yes, MPs also. In fact, no clue proves this optimistic response

In general, MPs use the area mainly for marketing, annexing their work, is rarely seen with voters, the party itself changes the district area every four years, so they don't have any political or social contracts with voters.

The parties themselves, when doing local tests, are addressed to their local offices to gather citizens' opinions on the party and not MPs' offices or MPs themselves, acknowledging that the real representatives are not MPs, but local leaders, party offices and local party! None of the parliamentary parties even resides outside Tirana, except those who have built luxurious private villas in resorts and tourist areas!

Can we have a more representative system, closer to our selectors, superior to our accountants? Yeah. We've had it with the majority system, we've had it in part with the mixed system, and we might have it proportional to whether the 18 May partners will keep the American promise of <x0-democracy by citizens, citizens and citizens”. A chance to make it? So far, minimum odds... just theoretical!