Daka: Election Law changed by 2008, necessary election reform

To facilitate this failed process of irregularities has sometimes attempted to reform the electoral system.

Failure to reform the election process, according to experts, will bring back unclear situations.

Central Election Commission Chairman (KQZ) Valdete Daka in an interview for Online Economy said it is obvious that the country certainly needs electoral reform.

Daka says most problems are in the way of voting outside Kosovo and voter lists.

“Now this issue has been discussed many times and it is very obvious that we definitely need an electoral reform and especially on issues that have brought us the most problems, such as voting outside Kosovo already know the problems that have been going on during the last elections, then the question of voting lists as well as we are now seeing that Albania has completed an electoral reform and has approved some changes it is biometric identification, which had greatly facilitated the process, but had also raised the accuracy of the voting lists and had actually prevented the event1>

Daka has even said that their demand is to become a real reform and not only prove a cosmetic change of law, which, according to her, has not been changed since 2008.

“We have repeatedly demanded that our request be approved to become a literal electoral reform not only to prove that the law should be cosmically changed because it has already to be and it is seen that it needs a deeper reform so much earlier considering that this year is 2021 already the electoral law has been passed in 2008 and it is probably one of the rare laws that has not undergone any change of<1>.

International mechanisms like the European Commission, in annual reports on Kosovo, have raised concerns about the impasse in election reform.

Meanwhile, a constant demand for electoral reform in Kosovo has also had civil society representatives.

While the reform vote in the Assembly, especially those constitutional ones, will require support from minority communities, as double voting will be required, respectively, for reforms to receive 80 deputies' votes and two-thirds of minority votes.