Consensus for Penal Code

Based on the problems seen in the last electoral processes, the Democrats and the Socialists agreed to make harsher penal rules for the elections. They categorized these acts in the Penal Code and gave further details about those that in most cases will not be punished with a fine, but prison, such as the falsification of electoral documents, filling ballot boxes, abandoning the duty, buying the votes, manipulating the electoral lists and obliging the administration employees or students to be part of the electoral activities.

All these measures show the mistrust with which the political parties enter the elections, and with the inclusion of these acts in the Penal Code, they try to minimize the illegal influences in the electoral process.

“These measures aim to reinforce the penal sanctions for some acts that are momentarily in the code and the prediction of other acts. We think that these changes are necessary, given what has happened in the last elections”, declared Armando Subashi, a Socialist MP.

Despite the three hours long meeting, the Commission of Laws did not conclude all Penal Code amends. There are some of them presented by the majority, the opposition and the civil society for the domestic violence, and other delicate propositions made public by the opposition, which are related with the investigation of high rank officials after leaving duty, but that are not officially filed at the Commission of Laws.

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