Himara is voting for new mayor, 60,000 voters without valid ID cards.

In the municipality of Himara in southern Albania, 36 polling stations were called today to vote 23074 elective for the new mayor.

Petraq Djikuria from the “Baska coalition wins” and Vanghel Tavo from the Socialist Party are in the race in these early elections after President-elect Frede Beler failed to receive the mandate after being arrested the day before the vote and was sentenced by Albanian courts to two years in prison for “active corruption in elections”.

The Central Election Commission said the process generally followed normally, and in all polling stations electronic identification of voters has been carried out.

One of the problems that emerged at many polling stations was the presentation of suspended identity cards voters who were not allowed to vote.

According to official data results in about six thousand electors with cards that have expired, but not all have had it impossible to vote because there may be valid passports among them.

The law also allows people over 70 to vote with identity cards that have expired.

Central Election Commission Chairman Ilirian Celibashi told reporters at a news conference in Himara that “are about 6 thousand voters whose document either expired or expired to this day. ”

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But in last year's local elections, the government made a national decision that the validity of expired identity cards was postponed, while in today's elections in Himara there was no such decision. / VOA