SP, criminal suit against CEC Chairman

19/05/2011 19:55

As warned, the Socialist Party has filed a criminal suit at the
General Prosecution Office against the Chairman of the Central Election
Commission, Arben Ristani, and three other members of the majority in
this commission.

According to the Socialists, the four CEC officials have abused with
power, have falsified documents and the election results; infringements
provided by some articles of the Criminal Code.

According to the
suit filed by the Socialist Party on May 14th, when the Socialist
Leader won the elections with 10 votes ahead, CEC planned a manipulative
scheme instead of announcing the preliminary result.

According
to the Socialist Party, this scheme was supported by electoral
structures of the Democratic Party candidate Lulzim Basha, who, as the
suit states, created and invented false proofs in Tirana’s Zonal Central
Election, in order to revaluate the invalid votes, as the only way for
overturning the result that the Albanians elected.

For the
Socialists, this entire procedure, starting from the normative act, is
an infringement of at least three articles of the Election Code:
regarding CEC competencies, the nature of these acts and the decisions
undertaken by CEC. The reason is that for such decisions is needed the
quorum of five CEC members.

The Socialists underline that CEC
administration has been prepared beforehand for this scheme, therefore
they took immediately the ballot boxes and the election materials,
which, according to the Socialist Party, were transported at this
commission without a legal decision, opening the way to falsifications
and manipulations.

This can be verified by the inconsistent
codes on the boxes and those written on the reports of the Zonal
Election Commission, which insinuate that the boxes have been illegally
opened.

Another indicator has been the stamp of a ballot paper:
that stamp belonged to another voting center. These facts, the letter
says, have been made public.

The Socialist Party lists a series
of other infringements by the CEC members in favor of the manipulative
scheme, and for this reason they demand the Prosecution to investigate
the case with the proofs provided.

Referring to the offences and
the abnormal behavior of the Chairman Ristani, the Socialist Party has
also demanded a toxic test for him, and an evaluation of his
psychological ability.

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