CEC disqualifys five candidates, certificate 63 others

The Central Election Commission (KQZ), at today's meeting, at the recommendation of the Office for Recording Political Partys, made three decisions, including the decetification of five candidates from different political subjects, as these candidates have not submitted to the CEC for withdrawal.

Meanwhile, 63 other candidates -- from various political subjects, who replace decertetified candidates from the CEC -- were set to be certified because of the court's firm condemnations.

The director for registering political parties in the CEC, Miradije Mavriqi, has said 85 candidates have been decetified so far, as there has been a formal form of bias against them.

The Central Election Commission has certified 85 candidates because it came from the Court, because it has a formal form bias. Political subjects have been notified of these deadlines and the possibility of replacing these candidates. However, all have expressed no desire for these candidates to replace them, for them are only 63 candidates that the office recommends be certified by these political subjects”, Mavriqi said.

The Central Election Commission also made a decision on accrediting the first observer group for the October 22nd local elections. The total number of accredited observers within this group is 30.

And the fact that observers of the European Union are among them, he has enjoyed CEC member by the PDK ranks Betim Djosin, who also stressed the importance of this commission's report as he invited recommendations derived from this report to be fulfilled.

“Report as you saw it brought no recommendations except for the Central Election Commission. It brings recommendations for the law and other regulations. For our part once again, I ask the secretariat to stand before him, as long as those recommendations for this report on this local election --” -- are said, Joyce.

During discussions at this point on the agenda, CEC members stressed that the cost of elections is going down by reducing, which is a positive trend.

CEC member from AAK's ranks Binak Vajaj has explained that the Audition Committee has considered the financial mirrors and recommendations report so far, but that weaknesses still exist. He has emphasized the importance of improving these weaknesses.

Improvements have been made in many areas, but still there are weaknesses and I hope these will improve and not be more obvious in the future. These weaknesses are not in the areas of high - risk action. The outstanding weaknesses are governance, which revolves with insufficient implementation of recommendations, the list of risks which has not yet been approved in the CEC and the self-esteem and implementation of regulations”, Visaj said.

Meanwhile, CEC member from PDK ranks Ilir Gashi has called on them to address the Ministry of Finance as soon as possible, the requirement to return the means spent for parliamentary elections.

The “will need to be headed with a letter, which should be very urgent because of the budget revision to return the means for local elections that have been withdrawn and used for the June 11th general elections. So the letter is best to do it in time so we don't have any further problems”, he said.

The Central Election Commission also approved the spending report on organising early elections for the Kosovo Assembly, which were held on 11 June 2017.

Otherwise, organising local elections will cost over 4m euros.