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Oerd Bylykbashi, vice president of the Democratic Party and political leader for the Durrës Region, appealed to Prime Minister Edi Rama to approve without delay the extension of the validity of identification documents, giving voters the opportunity to vote on May 11.
Bylykbashi said that there are 466 thousand citizens with the right to vote who do not have a valid identity document, neither an ID card nor a passport.
"The Albanian government extended the validity only for voters living outside Albania, discriminating against those in Albania.
This discrimination is unconstitutional and jeopardizes the right to vote of these 466,000 citizens who reside in Albania, and on May 11th, they want to vote and express their constitutional right.
We urge the government to immediately issue the normative act and extend the validity of identity documents solely for electoral reasons, so that these citizens will be able to vote on May 11th.
We ask the CEC, as the supreme body in the conduct of the elections, to strongly request the government so that these citizens have the opportunity to vote. We also draw the attention of international mechanisms for election observation, such as the OSCE-ODIHR, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and any other international institution, to point out this violation of the rights of Albanians. This should be done now, immediately, so that on May 11, all Albanians have the right to express themselves for change, to change this autocratic regime”, said Bylykbashi.
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