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The Central Election Commission (Albanian: Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve), commonly abbreviated in Albanian as KQZ, is a permanent, independent, non-partisan statutory agency responsible for conducting parliamentary and local elections in the Republic of Albania. It is regulated by and beholden to the Electoral Code.
Election administration is the management of the logistics of elections, particularly large democratic elections. [1] Common challenges in election administration include long lines at polling places, ensuring equitable access to voting, designing ballots so that voters can understand them as well as possible, ensuring that voters are registered where applicable, counting votes, and correcting ...
The Council of Europe stated that the elections were "well-administered, lacked women as candidates and in administration, and lacked focus on local issues" [52] On 5 March 2024, mayor-elect of Himarë Dhionisios Alfred Beleri , who had been arrested on 12 May 2023, two days before the election, was sentenced to two years in prison for alleged ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 25 April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic to elect the 140 members of the parliament.A total of 1,871 candidates, including 732 women, were registered, with ten political parties, two coalitions and three independent candidates contesting the election.
The electoral system of Albania is constructed upon the principles defined in the constitution and the electoral code. As a parliamentary constitutional republic, Albania implements a regional proportional representation method that allocates seats in the parliament according to the proportion of votes garnered by political parties in a multi-party system.
Indirect presidential elections were held in Albania on 30 May, 4, 8 and 11 June 2012, [1] the seventh such elections since the collapse of the communist regime in 1991. The first through third rounds of voting were inconclusive. The fourth round resulted in the incumbent party's member Bujar Nishani being elected as President.
Elections for the Parliament are held 30 to 60 days before the end of the mandate, and at most 45 days after its dissolution. The electoral system is closed list proportional representation. There are 12 multi-member constituencies , corresponding to the 12 counties of the country.
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.