{"id":15483,"date":"2021-06-10T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=15483"},"modified":"2021-06-10T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:54:05","slug":"52-4-of-albanians-believe-in-electoral-fraud-of-which-29-2-dismiss-it-determined-the-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/52-4-of-albanians-believe-in-electoral-fraud-of-which-29-2-dismiss-it-determined-the-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"52.4% of Albanians believe in electoral fraud, of which 29.2% dismiss it determined the winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Albanian citizens believe that there were irregularities at the polls, however, they dismiss the idea that it might have impacted the outcome of the elections. Among those who admit to electoral fraud, not all agree that the process needs to be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>These were the results of the survey conducted by the prestigious company MRB for Euronews Albania. When the surveyed were asked to give their opinion on the claims made by the leader of the Democratic Party Lulzim Basha that \u201celections were rigged\u201d, \u201cmajor manipulations committed by the government\u201d and that April 25 was an \u201celectoral massacre\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about these allegations, those surveyed responded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elections were fair, the <strong>result was clear, cannot be contested<\/strong> \u2013 44.7%<\/li>\n<li>There were some irregularities from the government&#8217;s side, but it didn&#8217;t impact the outcome &#8211; 11.4%<\/li>\n<li>There were some irregularities, not only from the government\u2019s side, but it did not determine the winner \u2013 17.8%<\/li>\n<li><strong>There were some serious manipulations<\/strong> by the government that <strong>determined the winner<\/strong> 23.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>52.4% of the surveyed agreed there were irregularities or electoral fraud, but 55.7% of them (29.2% of the 52.4%) do not believe that these irregularities were so grave to determine the outcome of the elections, meanwhile, 55.9% are against repeating the polls.<\/p>\n<p>What caught the attention is the fact that 78.3% of Socialist voters believe that elections were \u201cfair\u201d and the result was \u201cclear\u201d and it cannot be \u201ccontested\u201d, meanwhile from DP\u2019s voters only 52.1% thought there were \u201csome serious manipulations on the government\u2019s side that were able to determine the winner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The survey was done for Euronews Albania by the prestigious company MRB who conducted 1.000 face-to-face interviews (49.5% male, 50.5% female) in urban and rural areas with eligible voters (+18) from May 25 until June 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/ilva-now\/2021\/06\/10\/bashas-popularity-saw-significant-decline-after-results-at-the-polls\/\">Basha\u2019s popularity saw significant decline after election result<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/ilva-now\/2021\/06\/10\/if-elections-were-to-repeat-today-sp-would-once-again-get-49-of-the-votes\/\">If elections were to repeat today, SP would once again get 49% of the votes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Albanian citizens believe that there were irregularities at the polls, however, they dismiss the idea that it might have impacted the outcome of the elections. 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