6 hours agoAlbanians vote secures Burim Ramaj country in Swiss municipality government
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Sunday, March 7th, across Switzerland was a day of referenda and voting. At the country level, three popular initiatives have been voted, while many local and cantonal initiatives have been voted in cantons and municipalities. But in several cantons, such as Freiburg, Vaud, Solothurn, and so on. Elections of the legislature and executives have also been held at municipal levels. [...]
While for legislative elections (for municipal assemblies) by the Albanian community there have been many candidates and many winners, mainly in the municipalities of Canton Vaud, it is quite different from the executive. For reasons taken, here, Albanians are still too rare or more accurate, there are only two throughout Switzerland. And, in this “chosen associate” from Sunday, March 7th, Burim Ramaj also includes.
He was elected to the executive body of the Wünweil-Flamett municipality of the Freeburg Canton. The source is part of the success that his FDP party has accomplished in this municipality, doubling the number of countries in the executives from 2 yesterday to 4. Thus, this party now has a majority, in the composition of 7 members.
But who is Burim Ramaj, and where does he see the cause of success in this election? In a conversation with albinfo.ch he, for his selection, thanks the Albanian community primarily. And this, in a municipality where at least 4.7% speak Albanian, certainly has its own weight... Therefore, there are more Albanians”, Ramaj is convinced.
Burim Ramaj is born in the year in Pristina, while with background it is from the Upper Storm, the municipality of the Year. He came to Switzerland in the summer of 1988 through the family reunion, to his father.
A lawyer is a graduate of the University of Fribourg. He was also employed at this university as an assistant for five years. He is currently independent legal adviser to small- and medium-sized enterprises (KMU). Married since 2019.
While it is interesting to see the rather typical road, which has brought The Source to this political position. I don't have a political path and luggage because I'm specialised in the FDP (end of 2020) and this is the first executive candidacy”, Ramaj says for albinfo.ch. It further sets out: rule out a year (2015-2016) when I won a seat in the legislature as candidate for the list of independent youth”.
It should be noted that the main support I had from my countrymen, who I know primarily personally and who have entrusted to me”, he admits.
Speaking of setting him up for a party like that liberal, he says: “The FDP is known as the right liberal democratic party. I'm from my principles with my right judgment but in attitude, liberal. So it seems to me that's the right party”.
As for the FDP's attitude towards foreigners, he, according to The Source “, is somewhat rigid but correct”. But, he goes on to “I think policymaking at the municipal level is more personal, so the local branch position will be liberal when they see that a community (Albanian) has voted it out. FDP. In the sense of the social contract, we must work together to cultivate values as well as integrate, but without being assimilated!”, he says of albinfo.ch.
As in other municipalities, even here in Wünneweil-Flamat, the right to vote in municipal elections is permitted even to foreigners with C residence permits.
But what resort is expected to lead Burim Ramaj in his municipality's government? The subx0> Reservation is not yet set, but I suppose it will be divided according to my professional preparation. At the same time, I will continue working in my profession. Here, The Source reveals about albinfo.ch an interesting segment of the field of his professional and intellectual interest: He's working thesis of the doctorate which deals with legal pluralism through Albanian customary law.
As for foreigners in his municipality, Ramaj says: “they can expect, respectively, that I have a person contact, reliable person and direct representative of their interests”.
Even for his relationship with his homeland, he has a beautiful explanation: “ties are kept without regional distinction because by counting on the Albanian hospitality inherited from Switzerland, I consider it to be from one country in each region where Albanian is spoken!
While we, congratulating them for the important victory, can express admiration, among other things, for the perfect Albanian possession of it. Something that is not self-aware of a young second generation, which has virtually spent the rest of its entire life in Switzerland.
