Cost of upcoming parliamentary, local elections expected to be 13m euros

CEC member from the Vetevendosje Movement ranks, Alban Krasniqi, said the planned sum is only due to the needs of the CEC as the election process manager.

Krasniqi: Cost planned for parliamentary, local elections is 13m euros

The parliamentary elections for the needs of the CEC and its professional secretariat are 234. The needs of the QKN and the KKZ are 516 and as election management troops, which are directly involved in election management is a number of 23 thousand and 180 people. So, overall for parliamentary elections, 23 thousand and 930 staff or personnel are scheduled for parliamentary elections only for staff engagement for 2025 totals 4m and 381 thousand euros. While for local elections involving mayoral elections, for municipal assembly, the total number of engaged personnel will be close to parliamentary elections, while the cost is almost double, since we have two rounds of voting -- that is, for the local level, 8m and 700 thousand euros -- and if we combine both as expenses, the total cost is 13m euros<1>, he said.

On the other hand, CEC Secretariat chief Burim Ahmetaj said that under preparations for the voting process for or against the departure of mayors in the north, invitations have been sent to political subjects to submit their nominations to members of the Municipal Election Commissions in these four municipalities.

Ahmetaj: On March 10th party invitations to municipal commissions' proposal were submitted

On March 10th, political parties' invitations to the proposal of members of municipal commissions selected for the voting process have been sent for or against the removal of mayors. The invitation has been made to political subjects that are represented in the Kosovo Assembly to submit their proposals to members of the KKZ in relevant municipalities”, he said.

In addition, it became known that the legal deadline for registered political subjects has been completed on March 1st 2024 to hand over the annual financial report for January 1st, December 31, 2023.

In the Bureau for Recording, Certificate and Financial Control of Political Subjects 51 annual financial reports have been accepted, while three others, such as the Kosovo Albanian Democratic Party, Kosovo's Ashkali Democratic Party and Echo Green Movement, have not yet submitted those reports. Because of its failure to surrender, the office has pronounced fines for the three political subjects registered by 4,000 euros each.