The rigged game: CEC shoots itself on the foot

TIRANA TIMES OP-ED Democracy is a system that needs rules. It is fragile and even the smallest deviation from the rules can have cascading effects. Albania as a country that has not succeeded to complete its democratic transition knows this too well. The political crisis that the country finds itself in is first and foremost about the rules of the democratic process, about a regular electoral process and legitimate outcomes that come out of free and fair elections. The key institution in charge to safeguard those rules and ensure their implementation is the Central Election Commission (CEC). Whereas political pressure…