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They are done with the bargaining for 2025, Gjiknuri: We are ready to start amending the Electoral Code in September!
2025-06-23 17:51:42 / POLITIKË
With the start of the new parliamentary season, work is expected to begin immediately on the Electoral Reform. It seems that after the next Rama-Berisha bargain last July, where the SP and the DP joined votes to strengthen the 2008 Electoral Code, the majority has finally (after dealing with the 2025 elections) been forced to accept the change to this proven "criminal" Code that does not allow elections where Albanians themselves elect their deputies. The new Electoral Code is already a condition from the EU for the Integration process.
Therefore, the majority, as Damian Gjiknuri admits, is ready to establish a special comprehensive commission for amendments to the Electoral Code for the recommendations requested by the OSCE/ODIHR, but as required by the first negotiating group. "In the conversation with the parliamentary groups, a joint commission will be created as has been done on other occasions," said Gjiknuri. The recount of votes for 4 districts is proving that the commissioners of political parties have in many cases counted the will of the citizens, according to the appetites of the subjects that have elected them.
Therefore, Gjiknuri sees it as a necessity to move towards the depoliticization of the second and third level commissions. "The open distrust shown by the DP for its commissioners, I think that should be the first basic recommendation to be made by technical personnel. Anyone who violates the electoral code should lose their job," said Gjiknuri.
To avoid any manipulation and excessive delay in the release of the results, another change that Gjiknuri wants to be undertaken with political agreement is moving towards electronic voting.
"What any debate would prove, despite what the opposition had consistently demanded regarding electronic counting, they returned to the traditional method, where unfortunately they do not trust even that method and are demanding a recount," said Gjiknuri. Is it taboo for the majority to change the electoral system?
"We are open to discussing with other parties what the best mechanism of representation in the ratio of open and closed lists could be," he said. Although he himself fought a strong battle on the open list, Gjiknuri does not think that the formula of ranking candidates on two lists is unfair, while explaining that this was in any case a proposal of the Democratic Party.
As for the return to traditional coalitions, as the Democrats insist, Gjiknuri is more adamant. The socialist co-chair of several bipartisan electoral reform committees also comments on the opposition's accusations of electoral farce.
"The opposition has repeated itself, there is no election that has accepted defeat. And when there was a technical government, it contested it. Accepting the result is the essence of crises and political polarization," he added. But will there also be elections in the Municipality of Tirana in the fall when it is thought that there will be partial elections for the Municipalities of Berat, Tepelena and Mat?
"I don't know how to say it. The Socialist Party will be ready whenever election dates are decreed in each municipal territory," he claimed.
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