Recent hours for candidacy, CEC meets tomorrow for certificate

At 23:59 today (August 13th) the deadline for political subjects to hand over lists with the names of candidates competing in the 12 October 2025 local elections.

So far, dozens of political subjects have completed their application and many others in the process.

That's how he made it known. RTKLive, CEC spokesman Valmir Elezi, who has added that after the end of this process, The CEC will announce Thursday to all applicant subjects and the number of candidates.

Furthermore, Elez has indicated that the CEC is expected to meet on 14 August and on the agenda is expected to be the Certificate of the second group of different political subjects and their candidates.

During the day, Elez has indicated that the deadline for application cannot be extended, as under the General Election Law, certificate applications must be submitted until 60 days before elections.

) According to the Law on General Elections, certificate applications will be submitted up to 60 days before the elections. So the deadline set by the CEC -- August 13th 2025 -- is in line with this law and as such cannot be changed”, Elesi said.

So far, the CEC has managed to certified the first group with 10 political subjects, of which 2 civic initiatives and 8 independent candidates.

The overall number of candidates, representing these political subjects, is 64 candidates, out of whom 5 candidates are running for the mayors of the municipalities and 59 for members of the Communist Assembly.. /Periscopi/