{"id":10136,"date":"2021-04-09T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2021-04-09T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:09:36","slug":"vote-buying-and-selling-swedish-ambassador-concerned-as-general-elections-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vote-buying-and-selling-swedish-ambassador-concerned-as-general-elections-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote-buying and selling, Swedish ambassador concerned as general elections near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on a visit to meet the citizens of Pa\u00e7rami in Shkodra, the Ambassador of Sweden to Albania, Elsa Hastad, expressed the concern over the phenomenon of vote-buying and selling ahead of the general elections due on the 25 of April.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized the importance of saturating attention to this phenomenon, as democracy is in a \u201cfragile state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI value democracy, we are here in Pa\u00e7ram to get the point of view and perception of the people over the electoral process. We don\u2019t talk about vote-buying and selling during meetings but over the participation of the community in the electoral process. The vote-buying and selling phenomenon is concerning, you must be careful because democracy at this current stage is very fragile\u201d, said the ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have a role, but the state must guarantee its citizens an appropriate electoral process. I don\u2019t want to comment on the involvement of candidates with a criminal past in the elections\u201d, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Political parties have already revved up their engines with polls nearly two weeks away.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently, the Electoral College confirmed the model of the ballot paper to be used in the elections, which will list candidates by numbers and not their names.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/06\/us-expects-free-and-democratic-elections-palmer-still-a-lot-left-to-be-done-for-justice-reform\/\">US expects free and democratic elections, Palmer: \u2018Still a lot left to be done for justice reform\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/03\/april-25-elections-ambassador-yuri-kim-makes-another-appeal-to-political-parties\/\">April 25 elections, Ambassador Yuri Kim makes another appeal to political parties<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/daily-news\/2021\/04\/01\/cec-decides-on-official-model-of-ballot-paper-for-albanias-april-25-elections\/\">CEC decides on official model of ballot paper for Albania\u2019s April 25 elections<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on a visit to meet the citizens of Pa\u00e7rami in Shkodra, the Ambassador of Sweden to Albania, Elsa Hastad, expressed the concern over the phenomenon of vote-buying and selling ahead of the general elections due on the 25 of April. She emphasized the importance of saturating attention to this phenomenon, as democracy is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vote-buying and selling, Swedish ambassador concerned as general elections near - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vote-buying-and-selling-swedish-ambassador-concerned-as-general-elections-near\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vote-buying and selling, Swedish ambassador concerned as general elections near - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While on a visit to meet the citizens of Pa\u00e7rami in Shkodra, the Ambassador of Sweden to Albania, Elsa Hastad, expressed the concern over the phenomenon of vote-buying and selling ahead of the general elections due on the 25 of April. 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