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SP MP Damian Gjiknuri has presented the draft agreed between the opposition and the majority for the Electoral Reform in the Laws Commission.
Gjiknuri explained the changes that have been proposed, by the vote of the diaspora, to 1/3 of the closed list. Regarding the proposal of small parties, that they be given the possibility that the closed 1/3 of the list is optional, Gjiknuri stressed that the law should be uniform for everyone.
Regarding the diaspora vote, he said that the lists will be public in the CEC. Every voter who has an address, through a list of documents determined by the CEC, is registered in the electoral roll. Votes will be counted in the CEC, political parties have observers.
"I do not want to confuse this piece of legislation that we brought for approval with what is called Electoral Reform. We could have been able to do many good things to address the recommendations of ODHIR, but due to the lack of consensus and partly due to the opposition's inability to come up with a common opinion, but also for the remaining period. We are not dealing with Electoral Reform, we could not reach that point due to the lack of consensus.
The addresses that we have before the table have to do with three decisions of the Constitutional Court, the first one with the vote of the diaspora. Decision that has created more uncertainty in terms of implementation. The Constitutional Court has requested more clarity on how the law was created. The second decision related to the repeal of the early formula, but not the removal of the early. This was one of the objectives of why the SP's legal initiative is about correcting the previous formula, increasing the weight or the threshold, compared to the weight of the mandate that the party wins. The figure of 7 thousand was the ceiling. Our proposal did not find agreement, although I think it is the best proposal. The third decision was the decision of the Constitutional Court, abolishing the threshold that the independent candidate had. Because of this vacuum, we were forced to present three initiatives.
For the diaspora vote, the lists will be public in the CEC. Every voter who has an address, through a list of documents determined by the CEC, is registered in the electoral roll. Votes will be counted in the CEC, political parties have observers. The envelope must arrive in Albania by the day of the vote, there is every possibility, the envelopes are not too late today, we have delegated the technical matters to the CEC, there is no need to take the assembly.
As for the lists, as there is a threshold for the parties, there is also a threshold for the candidates. However, based on the proposals of the party experts who are here, we thought we should stick to the constitutional principle. 1/3 of the list fixed and the rest open for competition. Even with one more vote, the other one comes out, but now in a multi-nominal area. If you wear cloud, 80 mandates can be in open game, the rest is fixed. Why don't we leave it completely open?
There is a principle, the electoral law must be uniform. The law must be uniform, ODHIR said that uniformity is mandatory because it confuses the voter and the law is not applied in the same way, so the same law that applies to one party must also apply to another party", said Gjiknuri.
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