They are almost always free, innocent, oblivious, and look good if you line them up behind you when you’re giving a speech. You can find a lot of them in schools around the country and all you have to do is tell your politically appointed teacher or school director to round them up and bring them to your meeting.
I am talking about Albanian youth and politicians who use them for their own political campaigns, thus exploiting their innocence and youthful look to decorate their political stages while they fill you with ‘hope’ about what they are going to do in order to get your vote.
That is all that matters. Who cares if they are exploiting our youth and meanwhile saying anything necessary to ensure their own political future.
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Here’s an interesting article by Gazeta Shqip, speaking about the same issue: http://www.gazeta-shqip.com/artikull.php?id=64557
Oh, and why do the children accept that? In Romania it would be a very high degree of risk to bring youths to political events because the youths could embarass the politicians anytime by asking them questions about their corrupt activity. Everyone knows what politicians do, including 6 year old children…