Albania Town Declares Trump Honorary Citizen

In a surprise move, the Mayor of Kamza, Xhelal Mziu, a town of more than 100,000 inhabitants near the Albanian capital, has declared US President-elect Donald Trump an Honorary Citizen.

Mziu, who comes from the opposition centre-right Democratic Party, announced the decision on a Facebook post and on the council website.

"City hall members voted unanimously for the decision with the motivation", the decision reads, having agreed that the victorious US Republican was "a revolutionary model for the new democratic order, an expert in the economy, a deal-maker in foreign policy, a popular wise communicator and a leader for modern times," the council decision reads.

A short biography of Trump accompanied the news, including in its argument for the award Trump's decision not to draw his wages as US President.

"Donald Trump represents the best of New York values and offers hope for all Americans who with reason feel betrayed by the political class," the argument continued.

While Mziu's post was greeted by some as a wise one that should be followed by other municipalities around Albania, others ridiculed the decision.

"Are you going to mail Trump the decision that you took?" one commentator asked with some irony.

Some considered the move a deliberate jab at Albania's centre-left Prime Minister, Edi Rama, who made no secret of his support for Trump's rival, the Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.

In April, Rama said in an interview on CNN: "God forbid" that Trump becomes next US President.

This is not the first time that Kamza has tried to draw attention by honouring major world personalities.

The former longtime mayor, Xhelal Mziu, in 2013 initiated the practice of naming streets after international...