{"id":9832,"date":"2021-04-06T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:36:31","slug":"cas-overturns-pdius-request-fourth-commissioner-at-vote-counting-groups-to-be-from-smi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/cas-overturns-pdius-request-fourth-commissioner-at-vote-counting-groups-to-be-from-smi\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS overturns PDIU\u2019s request, fourth commissioner at vote counting groups to be from SMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following today\u2019s meeting, the Commission of Appeals and Sanctions near CEC overturned the complaint of the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity (PDIU).<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned opposed the decision of State Election Commissioner Ilirian Celibashi and demanded to have its own vote-counting representatives at the elections.<\/p>\n<p>Celibashi\u2019s argument, which was later on endorsed by CAS, was that the PDIU is in a coalition with the Democratic Party and the Alliance for a Change, and since it is not running as a separate political subject it&#8217;s not entitled to its own poll watchers.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the recent decision, the fourth commissioner from the vote-counting groups will be from the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI).<\/p>\n<p>Candidates will be represented by numbers on the ballot papers, not by their names as the usual practice until now.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken up by the Electoral College on April 4, after a complaint filed by the Democratic Party at the Commission of Appeals and Sanctions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/03\/commission-of-appeals-and-sanctions-accepts-sps-request-over-the-ballot-paper\/\">Commission of Appeals and Sanctions accepts SP\u2019s request over the ballot paper<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/06\/15\/electoral-reform-strict-rules-and-sanctions-revealed\/\">Electoral reform strict rules and sanctions revealed<\/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\/01\/cec-decides-on-final-model-of-ballot-paper-for-april-25-turns-down-sps-request\/\">CEC decides on final model of ballot paper for April 25, turns down SP\u2019s request<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu9675\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following today\u2019s meeting, the Commission of Appeals and Sanctions near CEC overturned the complaint of the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity (PDIU). The aforementioned opposed the decision of State Election Commissioner Ilirian Celibashi and demanded to have its own vote-counting representatives at the elections. Celibashi\u2019s argument, which was later on endorsed by CAS, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CAS overturns PDIU\u2019s request, fourth commissioner at vote counting groups to be from SMI - 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\/cas-overturns-pdius-request-fourth-commissioner-at-vote-counting-groups-to-be-from-smi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CAS overturns PDIU\u2019s request, fourth commissioner at vote counting groups to be from SMI - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following today\u2019s meeting, the Commission of Appeals and Sanctions near CEC overturned the complaint of the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity (PDIU). 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