TIRANA, July 28 /ATA/ State Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi called for Electoral Code changes at a technical roundtable of the Special Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform to stop the ruling party from misusing state resources.
The latest OSCE/ODIHR report also identified the dividing line between the state and the ruling party as one of the main problems with elections and have requested immediate addressing of this matter.
Celibashi emphasized that the upcoming electoral reform should improve the legal guarantees in this regard, while also presenting five concrete proposals.
First, according to Celibashi, the Electoral Code should define in a crystal clear way the notion of “administrative and/or state resources”.
Celibashi also called for the new Electoral Code to clearly sanction the principle of separation between the state and the ruling party.
Celibashi also requested ban of inauguration of public works during election period.
Celibashi also proposed a special regulation for institutional communication on the official websites of institutions, social networks, public communication campaigns, audiovisual materials financed by public funds and institutional digital communication, as according to the head of the CEC, it has become the most sophisticated form of making use of the administrative resources. /m.m/a.f/p.s./
