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May 14 elections, OSCE-ODIHR gives passing grade: What needs to be improved

2023-09-29 19:36:53Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
May 14 elections, OSCE-ODIHR gives passing grade: What needs to be improved
May 14 elections

The local elections of May 14 received a passing grade from the OSCE-ODIHR.

OSCE/ODIHR considers the local elections "well-administered and competitive, but the process was polarized by the main parties and deep divisions within the opposition"

In the final election monitoring report, the internationals list some problems, where the main appeal is for the improvement of the electoral legislation.

The hottest point that led the post-election period were the accusations of buying and selling votes, for which ODIHR says that it has not found a concrete case, and to calm the situation, it sees the change of the legal framework as a solution.

"Law enforcement agencies must make every effort to identify and independently investigate all allegations of election violations, including vote buying, voter pressure, and misuse of administrative resources, in a thorough manner, in timely and transparent".

But unlike the buying and selling of votes, the presence of unauthorized persons near the voting centers has fallen in the eyes of the international community. Out of 101 monitored centers, 10% of them were found to be interfering with the voting process, even in some cases in tense situations.

"Unauthorized persons, usually party activists, were present in 4 percent of the polling stations observed and in 6 percent, persons other than KVC members, mainly observers and party activists, interfered or directed the voting process . Tension or riots were reported outside 2 percent of polling stations observed and inside – 2 percent.

On May 14, electronic voting and counting was implemented in three municipalities, but the way citizens voted seems worrying for ODIHR, underlining that it has found cases of vote identification.

“The International Monitoring Mission also observed a number of procedural violations, including group voting, 12%. In 3% percent of the polling stations visited, the Mission observed attempts to influence voters as to who they should vote for, and also, in 3%, the same person assisting more than one voter, in violation of the law ".

The voting day and the counting process are described in positive terms by the report, but there is no lack of criticism, even mentioning cases of not allowing the monitoring mission to observe the process.

"The election day was generally peaceful, but it was negatively affected by numerous cases of party interference in the process, as well as by technical and procedural problems. In some cases, the International Election Observation Mission was not allowed to observe the voting and counting processes".

And precisely in the counting, the internationals highlight for some centers the mismatch between the boxed votes and the distributed ballots.

"In 27 counts observed, the number of votes found in the box did not match the number of voters who had received ballots."

This report will be officially forwarded to the parties involved in the elections, which will have to be taken into consideration in order to raise the standard of the electoral processes in Albania.


Në përputhje me standarded JTI

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