TIRANA, Nov. 20 – Lawmakers making up the parliamentary committee on the electoral reform have acknowledged that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has offered a package of proposals on how to reform the electoral code they are supposed to do.
But no work at all is done for that.
Kastriot Islami of the opposition Socialists acknowledged the OSCE proposal arrival saying it also covered amendments in the whole system.
Some models have been offered to the commission including the change into a proportional system or other ones.
Islami said that the proposal was a mixture of the Spanish, Greek, Bulgarian and German electoral systems adapted into the Albanian reality.
Islami also acknowledged that unless they hold this reform on time the country would have very few chances of getting the NATO membership next year.
But the opposition and the majority Democrats are practically ding nothing on that.
NATO and also the EU have made it clear that the Albanian political forces should cooperate and resolve once and for all the issue of the electoral reform, which has always been a shortcoming in post-communist Albania.
The parliament has created a committee for the second time after the failure of the first. But neither that is achieving anything.
