For the third time in a row, the Barometer in Euronews, Datacentrum and the company MRB have predicted the outcome of the elections.
This forecast, this time too, was in the same figures as the result of the Central Election Commission for the 2023 premises.
In the local elections of May 14, the accurately predicted result is the result for the head of the municipality of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, who, according to the Central Election Commission, received 54.69% of the votes.
Barometer published the forecast for the mayor on May 8, for which the survey showed that Veliaj would receive a minimum of 52.4% of the votes, an average of 54.4% of them, and a maximum of 56.4% of the votes for the head of the Municipality.
As for the candidate of “Together We Win” coalition, Belind Këlliçi, the Barometer predicted that he would receive a minimum of 35.1% of the votes, an average of 37.1% of them and a maximum of 39.1% of the votes. The CEC would publish the official results, in which Belind Kelliçi received 34.58% of the votes. Even the result for Këlliç was accurately predicted by the Euronews Albania survey.
According to the CEC, the candidate of the Democratic Party, Roland Bejko, received 4.27% of the votes, while the Barometer projection published on May 8 predicted that Bejko would receive a minimum of 2.3%, an average of 3.8% of the votes, and a maximum of 5.3% of the votes.
The leader of the “Levizja Bashke” Arlind Qori received 4.77%, according to the official figures published by the CEC, while the survey in Euronews Albania predicted that he would receive a minimum of 1.1% of the votes, an average of 2.6% of them and a maximum of 4.1% of the votes, in the race for the head of the Tirana Municipality.
The candidate for the head of the Municipality of Tirana, from the Justice, Integration and Unity Party, Lajla Përnaska, received 0.73% of the votes, while the predicted result on May 8 by the Barometer was that Përnaska would receive a minimum of 0.6% of the votes, an average of 2.1% of them and a maximum of 3.6%, accurately approximating the official result published by the Central Election Commission.
The parliamentary election poll on April 25, 2021 would be the first result that would coincide with the result published by the Central Election Commission, while the second result that was accurately predicted by the Barometer was the March 6 by-election, where the candidates for the head of several municipalities in the country were voted.
