Voting from the diaspora, Ilirjan Celibashi: Sending the ballot and returning the vote is 100 percent guaranteed

2025-04-10 23:05:30 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

Voting from the diaspora, Ilirjan Celibashi: Sending the ballot and returning

The State Election Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi, invited to the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, explained some aspects of the vote of over 250 thousand voters in the diaspora, a process that is happening for the first time in parliamentary elections. Celibashi expressed confidence that the sending and return of the diaspora vote is 100 percent secure.

Celibashi: So far, things have gone according to our predictions. Today we started preparing the election documentation for voters outside the Olympic Park in Tirana and on Monday we will start sending it out.

Italy is the country with the largest number, Greece, Germany, the USA, etc. It is certain that everyone will receive the envelope because everyone used an operator that had no connection to the government and others, and it is DHL that has all the credentials to do this. I cannot say how many will be returned, because it depends on the voters themselves. About 250 thousand have been registered, but it depends on how many will respond. We have created the conditions to return the envelope free of charge, even without leaving home.

Sending the ballot and returning the vote is 100 percent guaranteed for this communication. How he will vote is another discussion. His choice arrives as he has made it.

Mërtiri: Is there a fear of family voting, with money?

Celibashi: We cannot guarantee this. Personally, I think there are many, 20 percent of voters abroad. A much larger number than in other countries, which is 2-10 percent.

Mërtiri: In Albania we have fantastic examples of vote buying? Who will guarantee that there will be no vote buying?

Celibashi: We are not hypocrites who say we control everything. We have come out and said that we should not vote for money. It is a logistics that is difficult to engineer.

Mërtiri: These have parallel structures in the diaspora as well.

Celibashi: Over 60 percent of them are people who registered not as a result of campaigns.

 

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