Vote count continues in Albania: The Socialist Party has so far secured 73 mandates

Up to this moment, four thousand and 730 polling stations have been counted from five thousand to 199 total.

Of these polling centres, how counted the Socialist Party at the helm with Edi Rama has managed to get 48.61 per cent or 682 thousand of 687 votes, or 73 mandates, the Democratic Party has 39.38 per cent of the vote, or 553 thousand 69 votes or 59 mandates, the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) has 6.92 per cent or 97 thousand 131 or 5 mandates, and the Social Democrat Party has only 2.25 per cent or 31 thousand votes, 628 votes or three mandates, TopChanel reports.

By the end of the process, 469 polling stations have remained to be counted.