Red and Black alliance as a new movement, its establishment process and its topic representation as a nationalist movement

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Vol. 7 No. 2

July, 2021

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

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Red and Black alliance as a new movement, its establishment process and its

topic representation as a nationalist movement

Elinda Guri

University of Tirana, Albania

Abstract

ThisarticleaimstoanalyseRedandBlackAlliance,anewnationalisticmovementinAlbania

whichwasestablishedin 2011.Considering itsoriginalityas anew socialmovementin the

Albanian context, it is important to explore which were the main factors that made this

movementhappen. It willbeanalysed below that theRedand BlackAlliancewas initially

shapedbyconcreteissueswhichhadconsequencesforsocietyandthenation.Specically,the

RedandBlackAlliancewasinitiallyformedasamovementagainstconcreteissueswhichwere

related to the possibility to change the nationality by a court decision and then by opposing the

lawonpopulationcensusonethnicandreligiousgrounds.Regardingthelawonpopulation

censusitmustbestated thatthere werea lotofpublicpositionsandarticulatedcontrary to

thelawonthecensusonethnicandreligiousgrounds,apetitionwasdraftedandthecasewas

sentalsototheconstitutional court.The aforementionednew issueswhich werearticulated

concretely by the Red and Black Alliance served as the starting point for this movement. Then

theidentityofthemovementwasbuiltonthebasisofthenationalissuewhichaccordingto

theRedandBlackAlliancewasuntreatedandmisusedandintheframeworkofthenational

issuevariousinitiativesandactionswereproposedand undertaken.Alsoit wasarticulated

the representation of the diaspora in the decision making and political processes. The

methodology for this article is based on the qualitative approach and secondary data’s, mainly

data resources taken from the Red and Black alliance site and also on the primary resources

takenby an interviewwithits founder andthen the leader ofRed and BlackAlliance, Mr.

Kreshnik Spahiu.

Keywords: Red and Black Alliance, nation, Albanian, opposition, diaspora.

Introduction

RedandBlackalliancewasestablishedon2011inAlbania.Itcontinueditsactivityas

amovementuntil2012inFebruarywhenfromMr.KreshnikSpahiuwasannounced

the transformation of the Alliance in a political party. It participated as a political party

in the elections of 2013 and didn’t manage to take any mandate. But even though it

didn’t manage to success as a political party is important to study it, because until 2011

inthepoliticalcontext ofAlbaniatherehasnotbeenanymovementwiththesame

approachesliketheRedandBlackAlliancesofromthispointofviewitisimportant

to study its formation process as a movement and also its identity. Considering also

that it served as a bridge to form a political party it is important to study it as a case

studyconsideringthepoliticalcontextofAlbaniawherethepartiesareestablishedas

partiesfromtherstmomentandthereareafewcaseswherethepartiesarecreated

fromthe movements.Alsothe inuence that it hadonthe political rhetoric ofthe

other parties regarding the national issue make it an important subject to study.