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New electoral commission starts work

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The new Central Election Commission members have started working and have held meetings with the international community and the country’s president ahead of the elections next year.
The president has called for the main political parties to come and meet next Monday to decide which is the best date for the elections, normally the last Sunday in June.
OSCEAmbassador Eugen Wollfarth met with the new CEC and expressed his conviction that “the intention to be of the best possible service for the country for good elections in 2013 is there. We expect an ODIHR election observation mission for the general elections.”
The issue of thenew prosecutor general continues to attract the attention in Tirana.
There are two opinions on that: one is that her mandate, term is over in November and the other one in next spring.
The discussion on how to interpret the Constitution is ongoing, according to Wollfarth, adding that “the most important is the selection of a qualified personality being able to do a neutral and impartial job for the benefit of the country.”
The international community, including Wollfarth, has often said until now that the mandate of the prosecutor general is over in spring. But they have kept quiet recently after listening to so many voices from the governing Democrats that it is over in November.
It is very much expected the politicallife will be different and more vivid, to speak in good terms, next week when Clinton’s visit is over and they have to focus on themselves.

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