{"id":29926,"date":"2022-01-21T12:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=29926"},"modified":"2022-01-21T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T12:40:34","slug":"cost-of-municipal-by-elections-will-reach-upwards-of-e1-4-billion-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/cost-of-municipal-by-elections-will-reach-upwards-of-e1-4-billion-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of municipal by-elections will reach upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special local elections in our country will cost upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced during a press conference dedicated to the elections set to take place on March 6, by the Electoral Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he also declared that electronic identity verification systems will be deployed in all ballot stations, whereas in Vore citizens will also have the chance to vote electronically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already experienced this in Tirana. The goal is to apply electronic voting systems during the elections for the municipality of Vore, but this will be discussed with each political party also,\u201d \u2013 he said.<\/p>\n<p>These by-elections will be taking place in the following municipalities, which are currently without a designated mayor: Shkoder, Vore, Durres, Diber, Rrogozhine and Lushnje.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/20\/president-meta-to-set-march-6-for-local-by-elections\/\">President Meta sets March 6 for local by-elections<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/19\/meta-begins-consultations-with-party-representatives-ahead-of-special-election\/\">Meta consults party representatives ahead of special election<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special local elections in our country will cost upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros. The news was announced during a press conference dedicated to the elections set to take place on March 6, by the Electoral Commissioner, Ilirjan Celibashi. In addition, he also declared that electronic identity verification systems will be deployed in all ballot stations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":29927,"comment_status":"open","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>Cost of municipal by-elections will reach upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros - 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\/cost-of-municipal-by-elections-will-reach-upwards-of-e1-4-billion-euros\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cost of municipal by-elections will reach upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Special local elections in our country will cost upwards of \u20ac1.4 billion euros. 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