Albanian parliamentary election, 2013

On June 23, 2013 were parliamentary elections in Albania. It was the seventh elections to Kuvendi i Shqipërisë, the Albanian Parliament, since the fall of the communist regime in 1990/91. Despite a dead and two seriously injured on polling day of the election process was considered a " peaceful " and orderly than the last national election. Edi Rama of the Socialist Party (PS) emerged from the election as the winner. Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party ( PD) resigned as Prime Minister of Albania.

  • 2.1 coalitions 2.1.1 "Alliance for Work, Welfare and Integration"
  • 2.1.2 "Alliance for a European Albania "
  • 2.1.3 Independent

Initial situation

Prehistory

Since 2005, Sali Berisha makes with his Democratic Party (PD ), the country's government. In the last elections in 2009, the Democrats came up with 68 of the 140 seats in parliament, while her main opponent, the Socialist Party (PS ), won 66 seats. In order to form a government again, the PD was dependent on coalition partners, since they are the majority of about 70 seats did not have in Parliament. Together with its long-standing partners, the Republicans and the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity, they could unite exactly half of the seats up, needed to form a government, however, a simple majority. Therefore, it was also the Socialist Movement for Integration ( LSI) - a splinter party of the Socialists - calls for a coalition that eventually appealed and until April 2013 in the Cabinet Berisha II a government partner was. On April 2, 2013, the LSI broke with the Democrats to enter into an electoral coalition with the ideologically like-minded hp.

However, the election was a long, practically still ongoing political crisis, which further strained the already very strained relationships between Democrats and Socialists. The crisis led to a months-long boycott of parliament and bloody anti - government protests in January 2011, both organized and conducted by the socialists. Reason for the crisis is the discontent of the Socialists with PD and government. She accuses her of having falsified the 2009 parliamentary elections. Also, poor governance, nepotism, corruption and abuse of rights are subordinate to them. However, PD and government counter continuously with counter allegations made since then characterize the already tense political climate in Albania together with the representations of the Socialists.

President Bujar Nishani issued on December 3, 2012, a decree by which the election was fixed at 23 June 2013. The previously preceded by meetings between Nishani and the chairmen of the various political parties one month.

On 15 April 2013, the government faction among the Democrats and their allies in parliament unanimously voted for the replacement of Ilirjan muho, a member of the Central Election Commission ( KSC ), by Klement Zguri. Muho was the candidate of the Socialist Movement for Integration, which left the ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party a few days ago. Zguri its part, has been proposed by the Republicans, who are a coalition partner of the Democrats. The next day Denar Biba resigned in protest of all its functions back to the Central Election Commission. On 17 April, Albana Shtylla from her post resigned as Commissioner. Then asked the Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli to present the opposition Socialists Parliament two new candidates, as the Socialists are no longer represented in the Commission. On April 18, Jani froze his commission work with a the reason that the government had openly undermine the independence of the KSC. Jani his hand had been proposed in 2012 by the party organization for human rights.

Prior to election day, the State Department of the United States had expressed concern about the latest development, as a Central Election Commission exclusively with candidates of the ruling and the opposition boycotted by the conduct of the election act could have endangered on June 23, 2013.

Surveys

There have been surveys that already the trend towards strengthening of the Socialist Party were at the turn of 2012/2013 recognize. The survey of the SOROS came to the conclusion that by February 2013, a majority of the electorate was still undecided.

Registered parties and coalitions

On April 19, 2013, the Central Election Commission ( KSC ) published the list of all registered parties for election. A total of 72 political parties submitted their application for election, six of which the application was rejected because they did not consider the application deadline. Thus 66 parties compete for election in 2013.

Coalitions

"Alliance for Work, Welfare and Integration"

The "Alliance for Work, Welfare and Integration" ( Aleanca për Punësim, Mirëqenie dhe Integrim ) under the leadership of the Democratic Party of Albania (PD ) will have a total of 24 coalition members following:

"Alliance for a European Albania "

The "Alliance for a European Albania " ( Aleanca për Shqipërinë Europiane ) under the leadership of the Socialist Party of Albania (PS ) will have a total of 37 coalition members following:

Independent

In the parliamentary elections, the two recent parties, New Democratic Wind ( FRD ) ( under former President Bamir Topi ) and Allianz red and black (AK ) ( under Kreshnik Spahiu ), competing alone and be represented in any coalition.

Constituencies

The twelve Qarks simultaneously form the constituencies in the general elections. On 31 January 2013, the Kuvendi put the distribution of the 140 parliamentary seats on the twelve constituencies as follows:

Results

In this election, a total of almost 3.3 million Albanians were eligible to vote. The turnout was 53.5 %. This represented a slight increase of about 2 % over the last parliamentary elections in 2009 dar.

The Alliance for a European Albania received 991,118 votes, and thus 57.7 % of the votes cast. She was therefore the clear winner of the election and received 84 seats in the Albanian parliament. The Alliance for Work, welfare and integration made ​​it to 676 433 votes, which corresponds to a share of 39.4 %, and its 56 seats brought in Parliament.

In response to this output Sali Berisha resigned as Prime Minister of Albania and President of the Democratic Party. New head of government is Edi Rama. The fact that the Democratic Party recognized the official results of the election commission and therefore their defeat, is seen as a sign of democratic maturity of the country. In this respect, the choice was under special observation since Albania is trying to get the candidate status for EU membership in the foreseeable future.

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