SP, secret counting investigation

27/06/2011 19:50

Former Central Election Commission Chairman, Kristaq Kume, declared
during an interview for Top-Channel that the Socialist Party pretenses
for electoral process irregularities must be supported on uncontestable facts.

But how and where can they find the facts that, according to Mr. Kume, if presented to the Electoral College, could cause the voting process to be repeated, as it has happened in Kolsh, Lezhe, and Armen villages.

Exactly for finding these proofs, the Socialist Party started to analyze and inspect all protocols signed by Tirana Zonal Election Commissions, by comparing them with the ones that were found during the CEC process for opening the ballot boxes.

Parallel to this CEC procedure, after the order issued by the Electoral College, one SP office has been working with eight groups for analyzing each video footage of the entire voting process in 11 Tirana Zonal Election Commissions.

This process is being held in full secrecy, for keeping all people that are involved out of any kind of pressure of threat.

The camera of Top-Channel had exclusive access to film the process where mathematicians, legal lawyers and economists are trying to prove what the opposition has denounced as irregularities.

Official footage from cameras placed inside Zonal Election Commissions are being inspected thoroughly by the observing groups, which are collecting the results. For eliminating any mistake, the footages are also inspected by two other groups.

The data are collected in an electronic database where they are compared with what is noted down in the final summary tables, approved by CEC.

According to the Socialist Party, this is the only way for finding uncontested proofs that during the counting process there have been manipulations by deforming the process for Tirana mayor.

By accusing CEC politically, the Socialist Party MP, Eglantina Gjermeni, declared that SP will follow all legal ways against these irregularities that deformed the process.

“SP will continue to follow all legal ways, convinced in the justice of its cause. The number of ballots that are inconsistent to the number of voters, the material proofs of the boxes that were seen by everyone, cannot be rejected by any Court, no matter how strongly Berisha would pressure them”, Gjermeni declared.

The Socialist Party will send the manipulation facts to the Prosecution and international organizations.

The prosecution is the institution that has the necessary competence for making investigations and for giving an answer to the pretense of the Socialist Party for the fact that even after counting the boxes at CEC, there are still more  ballots than voters.

The Socialists say that they already have this pretense, thanks to the analyze that these group of selected people are making to the protocols.

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