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IV. Election administration


C. Removal of members CEAZs and VCCs









During the visit of the Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR to Albania, electoral interlocutors informed that such provisions were aimed at avoiding bribery of the members of election commissions. Some political parties even gathered their members of election commissions in separate premises up to the last moment in order to prevent their external influences. Such information is far from reassuring and, on the contrary, tends to indicate the intention of political actors to ensure the dependence rather than independence of members of election commissions on their nominating party.