Albanian mayors selected in Italy, 31-year-old confesss difficult journey

Manushi won the local elections in the small town of Peve di Cador. In an interview given for Euronea Albania, the 31-year-old confessed the difficulties of travelling from migration to victory in the election. She said she has emigrated to Italy with her family at age nine and that the beginnings have been very difficult. She underlined that she was educated in law and currently works as a lawyer. He added that politics had a passion that he could materialize in this victory.

This little election campaign of mine has kidnapped me and I have not been able to attend elections in Albania. I try to inform you what happens in Albania, but this time it was a special occasion that I couldn't do it because of my commitments.

I was wondering if I wanted to tell the media about this campaign of mine and I said maybe it wasn't good luck. I said we better win first and then tell the media.

I went to Italy when I was nine years old, I made it up to 3rd grade in Albania. I studied here, I finished law school, and now I'm a lawyer. The beginnings have been very difficult. Like any original immigrant has not been easy. We were lucky to come to a small town where everyone knew each other.

The last few years have had a development in terms of Albanians, since in the early 1990s, we have had a bad and undeserved reputation. In recent years, though, there has been development from this viewpoint.

I've had discrimination from a part of the population that's right and follows those trained ones of the Italian right xenophobe”, she said.