The Albanian Committee of Helsinki has published the final report of the monitoring of the local elections, May 14, 2023.
KSh has published a survey that reflects data from interviews conducted, with a sample of 1087 voters, in the municipalities: Malësi e Madhe, Shkodër, Kukës, Lezhë, Dibër, Durrës, Tirana, Elbasan, Fier, Berat, Korçë, Pogradec, Vlora and Gjirokastra .
According to the survey on external influence and unfair interference of foreign countries in the electoral processes in Albania, Russia (25.38%), Turkey (19.13%), China (10.86%), Iran (10.39%), are criticized in the arena international as states with dictatorial or autocratic regimes.
In the report published by the Albanian Committee of Helsinki, problems such as buying and selling of votes, misuse of public assets and questionable financing of electoral subjects for the election campaign have been identified.
Focusing on the questionable financing of electoral subjects for the election campaign, we see that we have interference from crime and corruption.
According to the survey, the respondents expressed that they know about illegal or suspicious financing.
82% of them said that the main source of illegal financing comes as a result of corruption and organized crime, followed by 9.89% who list businesses as financiers and a low number of voters about 7% think that Russia can finance electoral subjects of certain, to influence the election.
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