Macedonia, Albanians close campaign

03/06/2011 20:20

This Friday at midnight will end the electoral campaign in Macedonia,
starting the 24 hours electoral silence. The political parties will hold
today the final meetings with their citizens. The elections will be
held this Sunday June 5th, while soldiers, prisoners and disabled people
will vote on Saturday. For the first time, Macedonians who live outside
their country will be able to vote.

The politicians appealed for free and democratic elections, inviting the citizens to participate.

“The campaign ended and you received the offers of BDI and of our opponents. We are convinced that you will take the right decision. I invite you to express this decision this Sunday, in the calmest, free and responsible way. Let us show a high level of democratic awareness”, said BDI leader (Democratic Union for Integration), Ali Ahmeti.

“I sincerely invite you for an extraordinary commitment. Sisters and brothers, in these moments, one single vote is as important as 100,000 votes. We want to legitimate our platform and political will. There are 700 voting centers, and if 12 or 13 people will not vote, there will be 10,000. Therefore I ask you to make maximal efforts to go and vote”, declared Menduh Thaçi, leader of PDSH (Albanian Democratic Party)

There are 18 lists with 1679 candidates in total, who run in these early parliamentary elections. This Friday, the Commission of Transparency claimed that two candidates were collaborators of Secret Services.

Meanwhile, representatives of the International Community appealed for June 5th elections to be free and fulfill all Democratic Standars.

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