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Is there an OSCE/ODIHR in America?

2026-09-11 17:09:47Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI

Is there an OSCE/ODIHR in America?

There are some news stories that, if they happened in Albania, would no longer be news. They would be criminal cases.

Donald Trump goes public and promises: $5,000 for every American if his party wins the November elections.

Now imagine the same sentence in Albanian.

“Edi Rama promises 5,000 euros for every Albanian if the SP wins.”

Five minutes would not pass. The National Security Council would sound the alarm. The OSCE/ODIHR would issue a statement on “violation of the equality of the competition.” The SPAK would register criminal proceedings for active electoral corruption in the form of electoral promises. Analysts would talk about “massive vote buying,” while television stations would open their newscasts with suspenseful music.

Because that's what our criminal law teaches us. Promising a material benefit to influence a vote is serious business.

What about in America?

In America, there is no discussion about whether it is normal to promise money. There is only discussion about where the money will come from.

So the problem is not the promise. The problem is Excel.

A completely naive question arises: Is there an OSCE/ODIHR in America?

Or is the OSCE an organization that exists only for countries where democracy is still "developing," while when it comes to superpowers, democracy falls into the "self-regulating" category?

Maybe the Americans have a different version of the manual.

In our country it is called an "electoral promise with elements of corruption". There it is called a "tax rebate", "dividend", "bonus", "stimulus", "refund". It is enough to translate it into English and the criminal article is lost in the ocean.

It's not even new. Joe Biden's America distributed billions of dollars during the pandemic. Back then it was called economic stimulus. Today Trump promises dollars in the campaign. It's called fiscal policy.

How elegant the words sound when they come with an American passport.

Even more interesting is the media silence. If it were Albania, we would have three weeks of TV studios with the title “Is vote buying?” In the US the debate is completely different: “Is it financially feasible?”

No one asks whether it is democratically acceptable to tell voters: vote and you will get money.

Apparently, democracy also has an exchange rate.

A standard for those being monitored and a standard for those monitoring.

Therefore, without further ado, it seems to me that we have made a big mistake: we have tried to build a democracy that is more democratic than democracy. Or democracy has gone for a loop... With more OSCE, more ODIHR, more reports, more standards, more morality.

Meanwhile, in the country that lectures us about elections, the campaign may also come with a promotional offer.

“Vote and get $5,000.”

Maybe the secret is simple.

The OSCE/ODIHR is not absent in America.

It just… doesn't monitor Americans.


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