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II. General comments


The current Electoral Code of Albania was adopted in December 2008. Since then two elections were held: parliamentary elections in 2009 and local elections in 2011. The Code has previously been assessed by the OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission as providing a thorough technical foundation for the conduct of democratic elections, if implemented fully and properly and with the political will to uphold the letter and the spirit of the law. The Code is not, however, without gaps, ambiguities, and provisions that could be improved in order to ensure full respect of international standards and good practices. The gaps are even more pertinent in regard to local elections, which are less regulated in the Code. Local elections appear to be treated in a secondary manner and some specificities of local elections are not properly taken into account by the provisions of the Code.