Electoral reform, Commission approves some amends

After three meetings, the Commission passed a package of a technical amends for which they had agreed since May and for which they had consulted the ODIHR experts. The most important amends that need consensus are related with the electoral administration.

More concretely, these amends will eliminate the chances of the commissioners to leave the room and block the counting process, a phenomenon that has occurred frequently, mostly after an order of the party leaders. The commission will be allowed to keep counting the ballots without the commissioners that leave, until he will be replaced.

“We discussed them in principle and passed the articles on which both parties have agreed. We are still discussing the articles that are related with the CEC formation and the equal rights of the parties in the appealing process”, declared the Socialist MP in the Commission.

The past amends are part of the ODIHR recommendations for protecting the process from the intervention of the political parties.

Another development is that the Electoral Reform Commission has given to the experts the request of the small parties for correcting the system. Fatmir Mediu, member of the Electoral Reform Commission, mentioned the issue during the meeting, but there is nothing final.

“We received an answer from the representatives of the commission, so that the Commission of Experts at the Electoral Reform Commission can review our request and proceed with a discussion with the political parties that have brought these concrete propositions. I hope that no one will be excluded from this discussion, especially the parliamentary and non-parliamentary political forces that have the right to raise their voice for the electoral reform in service of the Albanian citizens”, Mediu declared.

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