CFFESD Press Release on First Part of the Election Day Processes
Tirana, June 21, 17:00 - The Coalition for Free and Fair Elections and Sustainable Democracy (the Coalition) presented the findings of the observation of the voting processes for the first half of the election day, reflecting the situation in all Voting Centers in the country.
"Based on the information received from the Coalition's non-partisan observers, the first part of the Election Day proceeded in an orderly fashion, with the exception of few isolated incidents" – said Mirela Bogdani, CFFESD legal expert.
Isolated incidents reported by CFFESD observers by 14.00 hrs are as follows:
Press Release on the Opening of Voting Centers - 21 June 2015
Tirana, June 21, 10:00 - The Coalition for Free and Fair Elections and Sustainable Democracy (the Coalition) presented the findings of the observation of opening procedure of the voting reflecting the situation in all Voting Centers in the country.
CFFESD deployed 1000 impartial stationary observers to a random and representative sample for the country nationwide as well as for the municipalities of Tirana, Shkoder, Durres and Himare. Such methodology allows the Coalition to extrapolate their observation findings to the entire country as well as the four mentioned municipalities. CFFESD's qualitative data are reliable with a 95 % confidence interval, within margin of error +/- 4 % nationwide.
Based on information received from the Coalition's non-partisan observers, the opening of the voting centers at the national level largely proceeded orderly with the exception of some delays and a few procedural problems.
Second Interim REPORT “Monitoring of Local Elections of June 21, 2015 in Albania”
On May 22, 2015 CFFESD deployed 90 long term observers (LTOs) in each of the 90 Albanian Election Administrative Zones (EAZ) to observe pre-election day processes related to the June 21, 2015 Local Election. For the reporting period from June 7 through June 13, 2015key findings regarding the performances of the election administration, conduct of the electoral campaign, performance of public institutions and abuse of the administrative resources are: