TIRANA, Jan. 12 – The heads of four opposition parties, the Socialist Party, Socialist Movement for Integration, Social Democratic Party and Democratic Alliance, met behind closed doors on Saturday to unify their stand on electoral and judicial reform.
Leader of the Social Democracy Party, Paskal Milo, was abroad and could not attend the high-level meeting.
Their discussions mostly focused on electoral reform.
The parties reportedly agreed to support the idea on the German electoral model, a 2.5 per cent voter threshold and the exclusive use of identity cards and passport as identification documents when voting.
Democratic Alliance president Neritan Ceka said that voters’ lists should be based on the fundamental register and urged the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform to draft amendments to the relevant laws in February.
Ceka was very firm on his request for open candidates’ lists and the conservation of the current electoral threshold of 2.5 per cent.
However, it still appears that the opposition parties failed to come up with a unified stand.
