TIRANA, March 4/ATA/ State Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi warned today that, “Everyone who will attempt to carry out acts like vote-buying or influencing the will of the citizens in another way will have consequences”.
During a press conference, two days after the March 6 local elections, Celibashi also spoke about preparations for the elections. Thus, “The normative act has passed extending the validity of the identification documents of the voters.”
“We are in the final phase of preparing for these elections. We have distributed the material base in almost all Commissions of Election Administration Zones”, stressed Celibashi.
“We are in the process of finalizing the appointment of members of the polling station commissions by the Commissions of Election Administration Zones,” he said.
“Even in these elections, there will be applied the electronic identification of voters and in the electoral zone of the municipality of Vora there will be used the electronic voting”, said Celibashi.
The Commissioner said that, “The CEC will pay increased attention in these elections to some negative phenomena, also classified as criminal in the last elections.”Thus, everyone who will try to engage in a vote-buying process or influence in another way on the will of the citizens will have consequences.”
“I do not like to actually bring it to attention, but already a large part of those cases and those persons, whom the CEC has identified as being in violation of the Electoral Code, are currently facing the judiciary,” underlined Celibashi.
On the other hand, Celibashi invited, “The citizens, media, NGOs or even representatives of political parties, that in every case they will identify violations, to report them to the criminal prosecution bodies”, said Celibashi. /j.p/p.s./
