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Instead of accounting for the old affairs with the electronic voting system, the head of the CEC continues to bargain with the Dutch company "Smartmatic", opening new tenders after the end of the elections, for systems that were previously paid for.
The fanfare of the end of the voting has died down, but Ilirjan Celibashi is not finished with the tenders. In the Public Procurement Bulletin dated May 12, 2025, a procedure with a limit fund of 430 thousand euros including VAT was announced, for a system that is supposed to supervise the video footage of the voting centers and electronic counting.
The tender that was born after the death of the electoral process
Surprisingly, this procedure was prepared as early as May 2, while the electronic process was officially closed as early as April 25.
In other words, the tender no longer serves any real need – it is a post-vote fabrication, more like a delayed invoice for some previously agreed-upon favor.
The object of the tender is “increasing capacities for storing film footage and creating a search system.” But these are functions that should have been included in the initial project of the electronic system, for which 26 million euros were spent.
“Smartmatic” – the non-competitive tendering company
In this story, the name of the company “Smartmatic International Holding BV” reappears, which has won the 1.3 million euro tender without competition for the “data update” in Vora and Unit no. 11 Tirana, the area where the new electronic system was tested. Ironically, Celibashi did not even publish the final results of the votes in these areas – for which they were paid millions.
SPAK is silent, Celibashi challenges
It should be remembered that in September 2024, SPAK announced the launch of an investigation into two tenders worth 21 million euros in 2021, conducted by Celibashi with the same Dutch company.
On the orders of Altin Dumani, the BKH received the relevant documents. But since then, no official announcement, no interrogation, no transparency.
Sources from within the institution confirm that the prosecutors of the file have blocked the investigation – giving Ilirjan Celibashi the opportunity to treat this file as permanently buried.
And to seal this institutional contempt for justice, he does not stop: after being investigated for 21 million euros, today he announces another tender after the elections, for another 430 thousand euros - always with the same model: without competition, with full funding, with the same preferred client. / Pamphlet
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