“If the mandates will be distributed by the Electoral College, this
would damage the credibility of the electoral process 2013.” One day
after the Democrats declared that they would demand the Electoral
College to decide the number of MPs for every district, since no
decision was reached by the Central Election Commission, the Secretary
for the Electoral Issues at the Socialist Party, Damian Gjiknuri,
considered this request as absurd.
Gjiknuri declared that the distribution of the mandates is an exclusivity of the CEC, saying that article “ë” provides that the decision is taken when it receives not less than five votes at the CEC.
“All that the college can do is oblige CEC to take a decision, but CEC is in a decision-making process and its quorum cannot be replaced by the College. These cannot be done even by a court, since they are exclusive of the administration that takes care of the elections, before seeing this kind of conflict, it would be more consensual to resolve this issue in the days to come by obliging the Interior Ministry to give the necessary information. There is no secret and we cannot accept justifications such as ‘these are confidential data’, since the name, the surname, the birthday and all these data are listed at the voters’ list. CEC can take the decision for distributing the mandate, no matter how those figures are. If these data are based on the legislation for the Civil Registry, the Interior Ministry will not give them and the best way to resolve it is uding the Court illegally, which brings a bigger risk for the next elections”, Gjiknuri declared.
Gjiknuri added that there is a fictive increased number of the citizens in Kukes. SP says that they have investigated and it resulted that they live in other areas. But the Socialist MP added that the opposition’s concern is not a fourth mandate in the Kukes district.
“Our biggest concern is the integrity of the national register at the Civil Registrar, and the behaviour of the state towards the electoral process and if the state expresses the complete lack of transparency, if it avoids one of the biggest principles for its neutrality in the electoral process, than we’d have a much more serious problem than adding a mandate in Kukes and removing another in Berat”, Gjiknuri declared.
The Secretary for Elections at the Socialist Party gives another concern for the electoral process of 2013: the lack of an action plan from the highest electoral institution and the government avoiding the obligation to guarantee new technology in the pilot areas.
“I see an apathetic role of the CEC administration, and the government is hiding its head in sand by no giving the necessary assistance for this process, although they have concrete obligations, together with CEC.
“We must underline that this is very important, since the implementation of technology was one of the pillars for the political agreement that was materialized at the Electoral Code. Every deviation from this engagement would cast shadows of doubt on the government’s will to prepare free and honest elections”, Gjiknuri declared.
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