
TIRANA - Although this time the measures were taken at the right time, the majority and the opposition sat down like two shekels and approved the changes to the electoral code, international partners willingly assisted and applauded the parties, the opinions of experts and civil societies were taken into account, the government did not spare any funds, etc., the parliamentary elections of May 2025 are in danger.
This conclusion has been reached by the conclusions of analyses and surveys conducted by prestigious organizations such as the Democratic Institute for Dictatorship, the Republican Institute for Monarchy and the Royal Presidential Association, which unanimously agree that unlike all parliamentary or local elections held in Albania in the past 30 years, the quality of the May 2025 elections is seriously jeopardized by a marginal, secondary and hitherto unforeseen factor: Albanian voters.
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"According to all the analyses we have conducted, it appears that voters could very likely irreversibly influence the determination of the winners of the May elections," says the joint statement of the three well-known organizations.
Through research, surveys, field analyses, contacts with local factors, etc., the above organizations, which for the sake of space we are calling Dictatorial, Presidential and Royal, spent in the most efficient way possible a fund of 23 million euros from the European Union to create this disturbing scanner of the pre-election situation in Albania, on the eve of the start of the electoral campaign.
Expert Napoleon Skuthi clarified for the media:
"The truth is that there has always been a risk that the election result could be influenced by the vote of the voters, but thanks to the measures taken in time, this impact in Albania has been minimal and negligible. In general, governments, institutions, political parties, commissioners, the CEC, and the State Police have been at the right height to prevent the election result from being changed, simply because that is what the voters wanted."
"But this time," added Skuthi, frowning, " the risk is too great."
Among the causes that the study lists as motives that could lead to the degeneration of the May 2025 elections are the lack of party commissioners who know how to keep away the malignant influence of voters in the vote count (most of them work in Germany), the increasing presence of technology in the count, which is grist for the mill of voters, and what is worse, the application for the first time of voting by the Albanian diaspora abroad.
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“I don't know, these people have dug a hole for themselves,” third-shift pollster Zalo Foshnja told Patronazhistin, referring to the prominent leaders of PëSë and PëDë who approved the diaspora vote. He even continued, traumatized:
"We are at the point where I Gjati and the Doctor are endangered by Arlind Qori. I thought it rhymed. The May elections were held like the movie Guerrilla Unit. We don't know when someone will come up to us on the street, to hand us a piece of paper that says, 'In the name of the voters, you are sentenced to a ban on polls'. Terrible!", and the Baby raised his hands and eyes to the sky, shouting, "Oh Great Father! Shake the foundations once, and then let the cuckoo sing in this ruin... " then he ran like crazy towards the New Bazaar.
The Albanian government also echoed the alarm that voters could influence the upcoming elections. In a statement to the media, Prime Minister Bella Ballukja stated that in moments like these, politics must put aside differences and unite against a common danger.
"We are a NATO country, a candidate for membership in the European Union. It is inexcusable that democratic Albania, today in 2025, still suffers from such problems as exposure to the vote of voters ," said Ballukja, " so I call on the DP to unite the votes in the Assembly, to make a law that protects our fragile democracy from the danger of the vote."
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For his part, State Election Commissioner Çilirjan Dollibashi admitted to the media that the possibility that the Albanian vote will influence the election result is not small, even though the CEC has always tried to limit this influence.
"You have to understand that we have so many opportunities. We need funds, we need qualified staff. And above all, we need political will, " declared Dollibashi, adding his personal opinion on the diaspora vote.
"What I'm going to say is not as a state official, but as Çilirjan: Why did we have to invite the diaspora to participate in our elections? Why, when they hold elections, do they invite us?"
Note: Patrona?isti is a pre- and post-election satirical column