The recount farce and the Albanians' 200 thousand euros in the trash

2025-06-24 19:35:00, Editorial CNA

The KAS has begun the recount of votes following a complaint filed primarily by the political entity Democratic Party, which disputes the results of the May 11 elections and seeks to delegitimize the elections and justify the loss.

Beyond the state machinery or how well the SP structure has functioned, the opposition claims that there was manipulation in the recount as well.

In fact, the recount of votes was carried out by the DP and SP commissioners themselves, throughout Albania.

The KAS decided to open the boxes and recount them, a cost that amounts to approximately 200 thousand euros according to official CEC data.

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According to the statements of Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi, no amount of money was taken from the Albanian government or added to the state budget, but came from funds that the CEC saved during the elections.

According to the data so far, the boxes show that these 200 thousand euros were thrown in the trash.

There are 200 thousand euros that have brought about the recount of almost 200 thousand votes of the DP and SP, which show us that mistakes are simply human and beyond human can be 0.0 nothing.

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What does this mean?

According to official KAS data, so far, about 88 thousand votes have been recounted for the Democratic Party in 713 Voting Centers.

These votes are all for the DP and what happens?

From the recount of 88 thousand votes, about 370 votes were found to be incorrect. So, 0.00 nothing. That's almost half a vote for one ballot box. 370 votes out of 88 thousand, which is approximately 8 mandates, these 370 are nothing.

Why?

Because they are within the same subject. So, the subject of the DP that gave votes to candidate X or candidate Y.

When the recount was conducted in centers across various CEAZs, some DP and SP commissioners considered those votes valid, while some KAS commissioners considered them invalid.

Or the opposite, that the KAS commissioners consider valid, the CEAZ commissioners have considered invalid.

And, this is a fact.

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Let's look at the SP votes.

127 thousand SP votes were recounted and 256 errors were found, again a 0.00 nothing, 127 thousand votes are almost 11 mandates or 12.

What are 256 votes? We repeat, nothing.

So, there are a total of about 215 thousand votes recounted, of which about 626 votes were found to be incorrect.

What are 626 votes?

626 votes out of 215 thousand votes are again nothing and it is not even human error, there seems to be no guilt or criminal liability, but these are assessments as one counting group makes them and another.

The standard has almost been preserved. Someone has called a cross on the name valid and has been accepted by the opposition or majority commissioner, someone has called another cross invalid and this according to the regulation by the CEC and the supervision carried out by the respective CEAZs.

So, 215 thousand votes recounted, 200 thousand euros paid by Albanians and the error is 0.00 nothing.

It does not produce even one thousandth of a mandate in its total.

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Albanians continue to pay money for recounts, for farcical recount processes, and if these elections have a farce, their farce is the recount that is now being conducted by the KAS to convince the opposition that there were no human errors or manipulations in the vote recount.

This is costing Albanians at least 200 thousand euros from CEC funds so far, of course, and it continues to be claimed with seemingly endless stupidity that votes were manipulated or stolen in the recount.

Meanwhile, the opposition had its own commissioners, and what is even more painful is that the opposition itself is accusing its own electoral corps and its most loyal people.

But their human errors do not exist. The number of votes is much smaller, ridiculous and in the end a nothing./ CNA