Former presidents support election transparency

TIRANA, Oct. 7 – Two former presidents, Alfred Moisiu and Rexhep Meidani, supported the efforts of the opposition Socialists that the government of the Democratic Party’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha should make the transparency of the June 28 parliamentary election.
Moisiu and Meidani said that the government and the Central Elections Commission should agree to the opposition requests on the opening of many ballot boxes they claim were manipulated.
The opposition claims there was a ‘deformation’ of the vote and they want to open and recount many ballot boxes. They will hold a protest this Saturday and have said they will spread the protest all around the country.
They want a parliamentary investigative commission to check their claims.
The governing Democrats deny there was any manipulation and also to reopen the ballot boxes, saying all they wanted was clarified by the proper election authorities.
Meanwhile the CEC has started to burn the ballots, a normal process after the polls. The opposition warned them to stop that process which would make null their claims if continued.
The two presidents, present at the promotion event of Moisiu’s memoirs, said clearly they did not want to be affiliated with any political party but the election manipulation should be over once and for all while the country is trying to now become a European Union member.
They said they were not clear whether the opposition boycott of the parliament was the best way to resolve such an issue of transparency of the election, but they supported efforts to give an end to the vote manipulation.