The Organizational Secretariat of the Democratic Party has compiled a list of 13 conclusions regarding what the opposition has called an “electoral massacre”. The main opposition party accused the ruling force of having bought votes in collaboration with drug cartels and gangs.
DP claimed that “in order to influence the results of the April 25th elections, the government was engaged in a massive operation and broad scale systematic scheme of vote-buying, that was carried out in collaboration with drug cartels and some of the most dangerous gangs of organized crime, which in many cases were protected by the State Police.”
In the list of conclusions, DP also said that there were many instances of misuse of public resources by the public administration and the boundary separating party from state was assimilated. DP brought up the incidents of the misuse of personal data of 910 thousand resident of Tirana, the payment of around 125 million euros from public funds during the campaign as well as the use of around 120 million euros by the local government to conduct public work during the electoral campaign.
“The record high level of public procurements of around 505 million euros during November-December 2020, for a total of 878 public contracts and procurements, compared to an annual average of around 116 million for the same period in the last 5 years. This figure that is disproportionately higher, represents the abuse with public resources carried out by the Socialist ruling party, for their own electoral benefits, only 4 months before the elections of April 2021,” stated DP’s conclusions.
The largest opposition party also said that “none of the electoral crimes have been punished, including those that took place during the elections in 2016, 2017 and/or 2019, which continue to feed the widely spread feeling of a lack of impunity of crimes linked to elections, by encouraging their massive spread even further during 2021”.
DP also touched on the one-sided changes to the Constitutions as well as the border closures with Greece and North Macedonia, a few days before the elections.
In conclusion, DP presented a detailed analysis of the results, achieved through a coalition in the country’s 12 counties and nationwide, emphasizing that it received over 165 thousand votes, more than in 2017.
“DP was able to secure 59 mandates out of a total 140 mandates, or 42% of mandates. Compared to the 2017 elections, where DP won a total of 43 mandates, we can see that we were able to win 16 more mandates, which is a 37% rise,” stated the analysis.
DP said that “it was able to obtain a maximal projection of mandates in the counties of Diber, Elbasan and Kukes,” while being within their expectations in Berat, Fier, Korca, Lezha and Vlora. The counties, where their minimal projections weren’t achieved were in Durres, Gjirokaster, Shkoder and Tirana.
“In the conditions of this electoral massacre, our work should be focused in the counties, where there is a real chance for extra mandates like Berat, Durres, Fier, Gjirokaster, Shkoder, Tirana and Vlora. As a result, the entire future strategy to forcefully strike on electoral crimes and illegal phenomena that have influenced the results, should be predominantly focused on these 7 counties. In addition, we should also focus our work in the counties of Elbasan, Korce and Lezha, not only to maintain our current number of mandates, but also to increase our potential of winning more,” concludes DP’s analysis.
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