TIRANA, July 10/ATA/- All parties will have the opportunity to have a voice, gain what they wish from the process, while the open-list electoral system make a current pre-electoral coalition formula impossible, because the ballot paper as it would require extremely large ballot papers, the Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Friday in a statement to the media.
In his remarks, the premier Rama noted that, ”this does not mean that we have any tendency or goal to hamper political parties to forge their own coalitions and run as one single and unique political subject, as it is up to them to do so.”
“The June 5 agreement was reached as a result of our readiness to offer any concessions. This is the first time in the history of this country when an agreement on the Electoral Code is totally drafted by the opposition,” Rama noted.
“I do not believe that open lists are a miraculous recipe that will qualitatively transform the Albanian Parliament, but I believe that the opportunity for the citizens to have a preferential choice in the list of political parties they vote for is absolutely mandatory in these circumstances, when the political class itself is seen as a closed circle,” the premier Rama underlined. //a.i/
