Election date, the president closes consultations with the parties

16:27 06/10/2022

Balla: SP is ready for elections on any date

The Socialist Party does not have any preference for a date when the local government elections will be held in Albania.

“The Socialist Party of Albania is always ready to participate in the elections and naturally win them on any of the days that the president of the Republic would decree.”

This is what the chairman of the parliamentary group of the SP, Taulant Balla, declared after the consultation held in the presidency with the head of state Bajram Begaj.

The setting of the date of the elections seems to be influenced by the works on the territorial reform, for which Balla said that politics should listen to the experts.

My request to the colleagues of the opposition who insist on the proposals is that in democracy none of the parties can be imposed”.

For two days in a row, President Bajram Begaj held consultations with representatives of the entire political spectrum in order to receive proposals for setting the date of the local elections that are expected to be held next year.

April 16 is the first date and May 14, 2023 is the last date as a legal space for the head of state to set by decree the day when Albanians will elect new mayors. During consultations with the parties, the allies of the Democratic Party proposed that these votes be held on May 14.

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