Ditmir Bushati
Socialist Party (PS)
Legal status
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What this means: The research does not establish this person's legal status.
Profile
Ditmir Bushati was Foreign Minister of Albania for the Socialist Party from 2013 to 2019, according to exit.al. An exit.al article of 26 September 2020 reports that the government nominated him to be OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, a post previously held by Harlem Desir, and describes him as a former National Coordinator of the Open Society Foundation's project to monitor Albania's EU integration process. The article gives no years for that OSF role and no date for the government's nomination. It also says he has no experience in journalism or media. This is the clearest documented case in this slice of a person who held an OSF project post and later a government-linked post. The OSF role is an employment-type link; it is not evidence of OSF policy direction.
Response from Ditmir Bushati
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Related cases
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Connections
Open the map →National Coordinator, OSF EU-integration monitoring project (years not given)
Evidence: exit.al (26 Sep 2020) describes this past role; project name and years not given.
- Government decision→OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)Source label: Under investigation
Government nominee for OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020)
Evidence: exit.al reports the government's nomination; date of nomination not stated.
What they said vs. what the documents show
What was said · undated
No Bushati statement on the OSF role was found in this slice. exit.al describes him as a former National Coordinator of the OSF project to monitor Albania's EU integration process.
Speaker: Ditmir Bushati
Albanian government nominates long-serving Socialist Party politician for senior OSCE role (exit.al) (opens in a new tab)exit.al · 26 Sep 2020 · journalism · EN
What the documents show
The article gives no years and no project name for the OSF role, and does not give the date of the government's nomination. Bushati's OSF role is therefore documented only as a single journalistic description.
- Albanian government nominates long-serving Socialist Party politician for senior OSCE role (exit.al) (opens in a new tab)exit.al · 26 Sep 2020 · journalism · EN
Timeline
Government
Government nominates Ditmir Bushati for OSCE media representative (exit.al report)
exit.al published on this date that the Albanian government had nominated Bushati, a former Socialist foreign minister and former OSF national coordinator for Albania's EU integration monitoring project, for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media post. The nomination date itself is not stated in the article.
Linked: Ditmir Bushati
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 1 source.
Source label: Under investigationUnder investigation · 1 source
- Publisher
- exit.al
- Date
- 26 Sep 2020