Shqipëria Posted on 2025-05-17 14:45:00

Celibashi: 9 irregular ballot boxes from diaspora

From Edel Strazimiri

Celibashi: 9 irregular ballot boxes from diaspora

State Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi stated today at a media conference from the Olympic Park, where Diaspora votes are being counted, that 9 boxes of envelopes from abroad are irregular.

"There is irregular documentation coming from abroad. There are inaccuracies for 109 ballots. 55,519 invalid votes in total. Some voters from abroad did not submit envelope B, only envelope A," said Celibashi.

"There are 1,462,352 ballots found in the box. There are 1,462,461 voter counts recorded in the minutes that the polling center commissioners have compiled, there is a difference of 109 sheets between them. Between the number of voters and the number of ballots. We are verifying where the error is throughout the territory. It is of those who closed the minutes or of the counters when they entered the data ," he emphasized.

"Out of 1,462,352 ballots found in the boxes, 1,406,833 are valid votes and 55,519 are invalid. There are only 9 irregular boxes that resulted from the evaluation process, 7 of which were declared as such at the moment of delivery, while 2 were contested as such by the CEAZ after receiving the boxes in delivery. Of the diaspora votes, so far 159,921 are valid votes, while 1,666 are invalid votes so far ," said Celibashi.

The Commissioner underlined that the process is very busy and, he emphasized, "we hope that by Sunday the entire counting will be finished and the results for the open lists will also be announced."

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