{"id":11236,"date":"2021-04-24T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T10:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=11236"},"modified":"2021-04-24T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T11:05:09","slug":"election-commissioner-celibashi-weve-taken-all-necessary-measures-to-guarantee-a-safe-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/election-commissioner-celibashi-weve-taken-all-necessary-measures-to-guarantee-a-safe-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commissioner Celibashi: We\u2019ve taken all necessary measures to guarantee a safe process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Election Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi said during a press conference on Saturday that voting will start at 7 AM while every violation on this schedule will be sanctioned with a fine.<\/p>\n<p>Celibashi asserted that all measures have been taken for a safe process and guarantee voter secrecy.<\/p>\n<p>The head of CEC brought back to the attention of the public how voting will unfold at these elections and said that the electronic pilot voting project that will be applied at the Administrative Unit 10 of the capital is \u201c100% safe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every polling place, only one ballot paper is to be utilized containing the names of political parties, coalitions, and candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In order for the vote to be considered valid it has to follow one of the three guidelines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choosing the political subject and one of the candidates, or;<\/li>\n<li>Choosing the political subject only, or;<\/li>\n<li>Choosing the candidate and the vote will also go to the party that the candidate is running for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot project at the Administrative Unit 10 in Tirana is 100% safe, voter secrecy is guaranteed, therefore I would like to assure voters from this unit that the process is safer than the one with the ballot papers\u201d, concluded Celibashi.<\/p>\n<p>1863 candidates are running under the banners of 10 political subjects and 2 coalitions.<\/p>\n<p>After a month of intensive campaigns, Albania has officially entered the election silence as the country prepares to open polls at 7 AM on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigns are strictly prohibited today and any violations carry a fine of 500.000 Albanian Lek from the Central Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In total, there are 3,588,869 eligible Albanian voters.<\/p>\n<p>According to data compiled by the Ministry of Interior there are 107.024 voters who will vote for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Albania will bring all developments as they happen from 6 AM, including the following day when counting the ballots, while a team of journalists will report across the country.<\/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\/23\/over-5-000-policemen-to-be-deployed-on-election-day-declares-state-police-two-days-ahead-of-elections\/\">Over 5.000 policemen to be deployed on election day, declares State Police<\/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\/22\/april-25-elections-ambassadors-call-on-the-albanian-citizens-do-not-sell-your-vote-democracy-is-priceless\/\">April 25 elections, Ambassadors call on the Albanian citizens: Do not sell your vote, democracy is priceless<\/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\/20\/ministry-of-health-defines-rules-that-need-to-be-followed-on-election-day\/\">Ministry of Health defines rules that need to be followed on election day<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Election Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi said during a press conference on Saturday that voting will start at 7 AM while every violation on this schedule will be sanctioned with a fine. 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The head of CEC brought back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11237,"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>Election Commissioner Celibashi: We\u2019ve taken all necessary measures to guarantee a safe process - 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\/election-commissioner-celibashi-weve-taken-all-necessary-measures-to-guarantee-a-safe-process\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election Commissioner Celibashi: We\u2019ve taken all necessary measures to guarantee a safe process - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The State Election Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi said during a press conference on Saturday that voting will start at 7 AM while every violation on this schedule will be sanctioned with a fine. 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