{"id":5511,"date":"2020-10-05T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/website.euronews.al\/en\/i-pakategorizuar\/2020\/10\/05\/albanian-parliament-approves-new-central-electoral-commission\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:08:54","slug":"albanian-parliament-approves-new-central-electoral-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albanian-parliament-approves-new-central-electoral-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian Parliament approves new Central Electoral Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Albanian Parliament has voted with 106 votes in favour of Ilirjan Celibashi as the new director of the formerly called Central Electoral Commission (CEC). The institution will be renamed to State Electoral Commission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Celibashi is not unknown to the public. He has headed CEC during 2001-2006. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Also, the Assembly voted in favour of Lealbe Pelinku as deputy director of the State Electoral Commission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In addition, the Albanian parliament approved the 5-member list of the Electoral Regulatory Commission<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Muharrem \u00c7akaj<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ilirjana Nano<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Dritan \u00c7aka<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Arens \u00c7ela<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Helga Vukaj<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">With 105 votes in favour, the parliament also chose the members of the Claims and Sanctions Commission: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ilirjan Rusmali<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Elvin Lako<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Koli Bele<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Elvis \u00c7efa<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ledio Braho<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Euronews\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The State Electoral Commission has now 12 members categorized in three levels. The new body will be responsible for the 2021 parliamentary elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/daily-news\/2020\/10\/05\/albanian-assembly-approves-new-electoral-code\">Albanian Parliament approves new Electoral Code <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/politics\/2020\/10\/04\/no-trick-can-stop-the-opposition-from-winning-says-democratic-representative-bylykbashi\">No trick can stop the opposition from winning, says democratic representative Bylykbashi <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/09\/29\/socialist-mp-gjylameti-in-the-end-voters-will-decide-for-the-elections-not-the-system\">Socialist MP Gjylameti: In the end, voters will decide for the elections, not the system <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanian Parliament has voted with 106 votes in favour of Ilirjan Celibashi as the new director of the formerly called Central Electoral Commission (CEC). The institution will be renamed to State Electoral Commission. Celibashi is not unknown to the public. He has headed CEC during 2001-2006. Also, the Assembly voted in favour of Lealbe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":5512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Albanian Parliament approves new Central Electoral Commission - 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\/albanian-parliament-approves-new-central-electoral-commission\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Albanian Parliament approves new Central Electoral Commission - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Albanian Parliament has voted with 106 votes in favour of Ilirjan Celibashi as the new director of the formerly called Central Electoral Commission (CEC). 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