FLASH
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The law served Edi Rama to strengthen the authority within the SP and Sali Berisha to get rid of the dissidents of Bamir Topi by putting them in line.
The debate on a new Electoral Code is a serious political undertaking and does not take place in a climate of abuse where all parties accuse each other of bargaining or conspiracy theories. Twice during the thirty-four years of Albanian politics, there has been a consensus on the Electoral Code.
The first was for the election law of 1992, which for me remains the best law of all time, as it is fair, it equates the citizen's vote with the value of a vote, everywhere and does not persecute anyone.
The law is essentially proportional to the majority contest, where deputies compete in 100 areas and after the elections the parties correct the result, taking as many deputies as they deserve from the percentage they received.
The word comes if a party has won 55 percent of the votes, in the end it is seen how many deputies it has received and if it does not have 55 percent of the parliament, it is filled from the proportional list. Thanks to this law, the socialists won 38 percent of the votes in 1992, but only 6 deputies won directly on the ground. Then they were compensated for 38 percent.
I have never understood the hatred towards this fair and essentially proportional law by Berisha, but then also by the SP. They have done every experiment except that law and have not returned to it. It combines both field competition and voting justice.
The law was drafted at that time by Aleksandër Meksi Skënder Gjinushi Kastriot Islami and Ylli Bufi and it probably remains the best law in history because the political consensus that produced it was still without preconceptions about the impact of elections. It was the first free election in the country.
Then Berisha gave up this habit.
The second big agreement is the one of 2008. In fact, it is sold as a big consensus, but it was more of a forced consensus after Berisha broke Gërdec and had the alternative of either enduring Rama's offensive that put the mixed boy in Gërdec inside, or you gave him what he wanted. In a way, it was Edi Rama's fine against Sali Berisha that caught him in the act.
This was the only motive that brought Berisha to his knees for consensus. And there, kneeling like that, he found an opportunity to produce a heavy trick that deformed the vote as the coalition was composed, which meant a train with 40 small parties whose votes then went to the PD at the top.
The law served Edi Rama to strengthen the authority within the SP and Sali Berisha to get rid of the dissidents of Bamir Topi by putting them in line.
But now that law has fallen. First of all, the composite coalition, which was the only one even of Berisha in that law, has fallen, and the ranked lists have also fallen, since the Constitutional Court has made a decision against the former, practically leaving the lists open.
The parties need only agree on a formula for calculating mandates. Lulzim Basha's proposal for a single electoral district turns the system into a national proportional one, under the rationale that it establishes equality of votes. This will bring the need for a threshold of maybe 5 percent for a filter in parliament.
But the bottom line is that the Electoral Code must be done once and for all, as an honest Code that establishes the equality of the vote and its equal value throughout the country and, above all, a long-term solution is given to the vote of immigrants, who do not necessarily need to have the weight of the citizen who lives in Albania when they vote, except for those who want to come here to vote.
And for that, a big agreement between all parties is needed. In 1992, the consensus was imposed by the desire of all parties to be honest that they still did not know the value of stealing the vote. In 2008, Gërdeci imposed it, after bringing the Berisha family caught in the crime to its knees.
Now I don't know who could have imposed it since I don't see any desire for equal votes and fair elections like in 1992, nor any trouble for Edi Rama to surrender as Berisha in 2008. So take it easy because you may be left without Electoral code at the peak of "normalization".
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