Celibashi: We are working with PD to enable electronic voting in the district of Tirana

2024-11-01 21:16:29Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Celibashi: We are working with PD to enable electronic voting in the district of
Illyrian Celibashi

For the first time, Albania is expected to include the voting of immigrants in next year's elections, and the State Election Commissioner Ilirian Celibashi expressed optimism that the Regulatory Commission will approve the necessary acts to make this process possible.

"It is clear that the relatively tense political climate in Albania does not generally help the electoral preparation process, but until the moment we speak, it does not seem that this has affected the process of approval of acts by the Regulatory Commission and in general other regulatory aspects or preparatory, which the Central Election Commission has delegated responsibilities from the Electoral Code", said Celibashi for the Voice of America.

While the political parties in Albania did not reach an agreement on the number of districts where voting and electronic counting would be carried out, in the interview for Voice of America, Celibashi said that he is working with the representatives of the Democratic Party and other parties who are skeptical, in order to to implement electronic voting in the district of Tirana.

"Obviously, the development of this process, of this way of voting, is based on the demand for a broad consensus of the political factor. As long as the main opposition party, the Democratic Party, has not given support, I am afraid that we, as an institution responsible for the preparation of the election process, cannot move forward.

Anyway, I will have to say and make it public that we will continue to work with the representatives of the Democratic Party and any other party, which has some kind of skepticism about electronic voting, to make it possible. It would be good for what the district of Tirana represents from a political and electoral point of view, but also for the fact that the vast majority of the political factor in Albania supports the development of electronic voting in Tirana, we can consider the option of developing electronic voting in the district of Tirana.

However, the condition remains that there is an agreement from the entire opposition spectrum regarding this process, even though the considerations of either the Democratic Party or someone else regarding electronic voting are not related to the system itself, but to the approach of the technical staff to this the system. Again, I think it is important to address this concern and hope that in a second moment there will be an understanding and consensus of all for this process", said Celibashi.

" For the time we have available, as well as considering that almost all other political parties, including the majority of the government, the Socialist Party and those of the opposition, have proposed and strongly recommended that electronic voting take place in Tirana, other elements are also considered here, whether political, electoral or even logistical. First, with the time we have at our disposal, I think it would be useful to develop electronic voting in the district of Tirana. But, anyway, we will have this discussion in the following days" , concluded Cellibashi.

The CEC initially proposed only Elbasan and Durrës for electronic voting and counting. Then the SP requested that Tirana be included or that the process be carried out only in Tirana. While DP did not support any variant because according to it there is no guarantee for a reliable process.


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