
At a time when Damian Gjiknuri repeated the invitation for the opposition to sit at the electoral table in the Assembly, Oerd Bylykbashi responded with another document as a condition for continuing the talks.
"The entire chain of use of power through decision-making, financing, administration, public activity, propaganda and electoral gain must be stopped," said Bylykbashi.
According to the Democrats, guarantees should begin with the decreeing of the election date, with penalties being imposed on time and not after the elections.
"Half-measures are useless. The solution must be complete, otherwise it doesn't work," he explained.
Anyone who violates the law will face penalties, ranging from fines, criminal convictions to loss of mandate, not only for the elected official:
"A novelty of this package is the loss of mandate. The one who is elected and is found to have benefited from the use of state resources loses his mandate, just as the entity he represents also loses it. So, the one who steals cannot keep what he stole."
The DP even foresees the invalidity of elections when the use of state resources affects the result at the local or national level:
"If the use of state resources is of such a scale that it has affected the entire electoral area or the whole of Albania, then this should lead to the invalidation of the elections."
Bylykbashi explained that these legal changes will be in force for 10 years, with the goal being to return the situation to normal. The Democrats' package contains 45 articles that will be included in the Electoral Code.