DOCUMENT/ The CEC's SCHEME and the DP-SP pact are revealed: How the mandates are divided!

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DOCUMENT/ The CEC's SCHEME and the DP-SP pact are revealed: How the
Central Election Commission

The pact between the Socialists and Democrats on the lists raised many questions about how many MPs will be the mayors' preference and how many will be the citizens' preference.

But the Central Election Commission has calculated the distribution of mandates in open and closed lists in the 12 regions of the country.

According to the formula that will be applied for the first time in the May 11 elections, the first 46 deputies of each competing entity will be the product of a closed list where the ranking has been determined by the president, while only parties that manage to obtain a number of mandates that exceeds the closed list will have the opportunity to send deputies to the Assembly as a citizen's preference.

For the May 11 parliamentary elections, political parties must find 186 candidates, as although 140 seats in Parliament are being contested, the division of the candidate list into two parts, one fixed and the other open, forces competing entities to present more names.

According to the CEC draft decision, it is envisaged that political parties will present a list divided into two parts, where 46 will be in the closed part and 140 in the open part, where every vote will be contested.

Calculation:

In the May 11 elections, in the new electoral system that will be applied in Albania, the first 46 MPs of each party will be from the closed list, which is determined by the parties and the voter has no opportunity to influence their ranking.

Parties that win more seats than those on the closed list will have the opportunity to enter deputies from the open list, where the ranking is determined by voters.

The first forty-six deputies of each party will be from closed lists, where the ranking is determined by the party and the voter cannot influence it. Only those parties that win mandates beyond the closed list will be able to enter deputies into the Assembly from the open list, where the ranking is determined by the voters.

The CEC document has calculated, by districts, how mandates are divided into fixed lists and open lists.

According to this scheme, small parties will have almost no MPs coming from the open list, but only from the closed ones.

For May 11, each party/coalition will compete with 46 MPs on a closed list and another 140 on an open list.

According to the districts, in Berat , for each winning entity, the first 2 deputies will be elected from the fixed list, and 5 from the open list.

In Dibër, the first 2 winners will be from the closed list, and 3 from the open list.

In Durrës, the first 5 deputies come from the fixed list, 9 from the open list.

In Elbasan, 5 out of 15 mandates will be defended on a closed list.

In Fier, 5 out of 16 names will be closed.

Gjirokastra has only 1 name on the closed list out of 4 total mandates.

Korça has a fixed list, 3 out of 10 mandates for each electoral subject.

Kukës will have 1 fixed mandate, Shkodra 4 such.

In Tirana, the first 12 winners will be drawn from the closed list.

Vlora will have 4 MPs on the safe list out of 12 total mandates.

According to the Code, for each competing party, those on the closed list will win a mandate first, and within the closed list, the order predetermined by the party leader will be respected.

If the party/coalition wins more mandates in that district than there are names on the closed list, then those with the most votes from the open list will win mandates in order.

The ranking on the open list is done without any threshold, whoever received one more vote, but 1 in 3 names, will be a woman, even if women did not receive enough votes in the election.



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