Small political parties want electoral code amendments

TIRANA, July 27 – Small political groupings again this week asked for amendments to the electoral code so that they can get their proper share of representation.
A meeting of a non-governmental organization had convened representatives from the political parties and the smallest groupings again insisted that the existing electoral code tries to put them aside.
That reason pushed the Socialist Movement for Integration lawmakers of the previous parliament to hold a hunger strike at its halls. Not that grouping has separated from the leftist coalition to join the center-right governing Democrats.
Changing the electoral code is becoming an urgent issue as the next elections are expected to be held next spring.
Post-communist Albania has held many elections in the last two decades but never a single of them has remained uncontested form the losing party.
The political contest of the last year’s parliamentary elections has taken the country to the brink of a total stalemate as the opposition boycotts any kind of voting until September. The country needs many reforms along its integration efforts in the European Union and the major ones ask for the opposition’s participation.