INSURRECTION/ SP MPs rebel, drag Gjati to vote on territorial division!

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2026-10-05 17:42:09Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
Star Manjani 

The DP has brought to public attention the issue of returning to the runoff in the election of municipal mayors.

The DP once fought hard to remove the runoff from the electoral law and achieved its goal. But that does not necessarily make today's proposal wrong.

Establishing the condition that a candidate in a majoritarian race receive an absolute majority, 50%+1 of the votes, is a matter of democratic standards. Not every country applies it and there is no unique model, but the logic is understandable. When a person is elected to lead a municipality alone, it is reasonable to require that he have behind him a real majority of those who voted.

So, as a standard, the runoff is debatable but also legitimate.

But the problem that the DP has today must be sought in the political dimension.

The DP and the Albanian opposition want a runoff not as a standard, but as a technical backup tool. The opposition tends to appear in elections with the vote split between several candidates, while the SP usually appears alone. In a single-round system, this naturally favors the single candidate over several candidates competing for the same electorate.

Therefore, the DP seeks the second chance offered by the runoff.

The hope is that her candidate will remain in the race in the second round and the votes of other opposition candidates will unite around him.

Technically, it's a perfectly legitimate request.

Politically, it hides the much bigger problem of the Albanian opposition, which is the loss of electoral ability to win.

For years, the DP has only blamed the voting rules, while their fundamental problem is losing touch with the country's electoral reality.

The opposition has failed to build a broad, stable and expanding social grouping that would see it as its own political alternative. It is left with a traditional core of voters, increasingly difficult to expand and, for demographic and political reasons, increasingly less sufficient to win.

But more problematic than this reality is the refusal to recognize it.

I can hardly remember any serious public poll that the DP has accepted when it did not like the results. The polls have been reviled, attacked, delegitimized and declared manipulated. And this has happened even when the elections have subsequently confirmed, more or less, the trends they had warned about.

This is no longer just a distrust of polls. It is a refusal to recognize the society you claim to represent.

How can you represent a society that refuses to recognize you?

Both the polls and the elections of recent years have shown the phenomenon of consumption that the opposition should seriously study. The consumption of power has not automatically translated into the growth of the opposition. On the contrary, at certain moments, while the Socialist Party has lost support from the consumption of government, the opposition has lost proportionally even more.

This is the real alarm.

Because it means that it's not enough for the opponent to be consumed. Someone has to want to come to you.

This is precisely where the DP no longer benefits from voting techniques, because it has forgotten the technique of casting a vote.

The vote is not produced by changing the electoral formula. The vote is made by understanding society. By identifying its interests. By understanding the classes that are emerging and those that are disappearing. By talking to the people who don't vote for you, not just those who applaud you. By understanding why a citizen who is dissatisfied with the government still doesn't vote for you.

The question that should torment an opposition seeking to come to power is, Why don't people who are unhappy with the government come to us?

You can't win any race by asking, "What electoral system do we need to win with the votes we have?"

When the technique of voting is lost, there is no electoral system that can save you.

You can set a runoff. You can change the formula. You can open or close lists. You can change coalitions, thresholds, zones, or the counting method.

In the end, democracy has a very simple brutality, you have to have votes.

The opponent can win with votes, not with offside rules. Much less by waiting for a blind goal from a procedural deadlock.


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