Number crisis at CEC

03/05/2013 00:00

After working for several days with only the four members proposed by
the majority, the Central Election Commission is facing decisions that
need a qualified majority, such as the establishing of the Ballot
Counting Locations and Voting Commissions.

This concern was brought to the Central Election Commission by the Socialist Party representative, Genc Gjoncaj.

“According to the action plan, the Ballot Counting Locations should have been approved on April 5th 2013, and the maximal time for the act was April 23rd. Failing to pass these act could put the process in jeopardy”, Gjoncaj declared.

Njazi Kosovrasti, from the Democratic Party, replied:

“Why don’t you bring the Central Election Commission members, so that we can resolve everything? Even if you will not bring them, we have the legal solution right here”, Kosovrasti declared.

The Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission, Lefteri Lleshi, declared that the legal deadline in the Electoral Code has not finished yet. Another option is leaving in act the decisions of the elections 2009, which have not been changed in the new legal law.

The new decisions that need qualified majority will end up at the Electoral College, as declared by the Democratic Party representative Njazi Kosovrasti when mentioning that there are other legal solutions.

This will be a precedent for replacing the Central Election Commission with the Electoral College for every decision that requires consensus between the parties, turning the Central Election Commission into an institution that takes only simple decisions, while the Electoral Code considers it as the highest administrator of the elections.

The Central Election Commission confirmed the Popular Alliance Party, from the Cham community, which was registered in coalition with the Socialist Party, after a very long debate.

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