Although the socialists won Himara with almost 1,500 more votes, the democrats and their allies do not give up and hope to find irregularities, enough to repeat the vote. The Democrats, together with Vangjel Dule, knocked at the CEC with a complaint at the beginning of this month, to declare invalid the result of the August 4 elections in Himare, where the SP candidate, Vangjel Tavo, won.
The Appeals and Sanctions Commission, in the review of the complaint on Wednesday and Thursday, made a decision in favor of the petitioners, to open the ballot boxes, not to read the votes once more, but to take out the election materials, where democrats think they will find irregularities.
With the opening of the boxes, the democrats will verify all the special registers of the 36 voting centers in Himare, which according to them, at least 560 voters were recorded who were not allowed to vote because their ID cards were expired . Also, copies of all the minutes or other voting documents of Himara, where the identification of over 260 voters, which the PEI device did not recognize, even though their ID cards had been renewed a few days before, may have been manually marked dated August 4, 2024.
The opposition made another claim, that there were double standards in the Himara elections, some voted even though they had expired identity cards. But the facts need to be found in the box.
The facts that will come out of the ballot boxes will be read on Monday, as the opposition will examine every data from the election materials, to come to the conclusion if Tavo’s victory is invalid and the elections in this municipality will be repeated, as he wants the opposition, or the winner will officially take office with the oath and will run the municipality for the next 3 years./abcnews.al
