PZAP rejects Haxhi and Kryeziu complaints of full recounting of PDK votes

According to two decisions provided by the EO, PZAP estimated that candidate claims were not supported by concrete evidence that would prove systemic irregularities in the counting process, while changes recorded during the recount do not violate the general integrity of the election process.

In Bekim Hagi's decision of complaint, PZAP emphasises that the recount of 185 deployments had been realised as part of the pre-emptive controlling mechanism with election legislation and not as a result of the consisting of systematic irregularities.

According to the decision, Haxhiu had argued that after the recount six additional votes have been counted in his favour and that the gap with the candidate listed before him remains 102 votes, demanding that the overall accuracy of the PDK candidates' preferential vote count in all seats.

However, PZAP found that the complainer has not identified any concrete polling or counting centre where he could be suspected of irregularities and has presented no material evidence that would support his claims.

“The complainer's claim that errors could exist even in other options remain at the level of assumption and do not rely on concrete prove”, the verdict's argument said.

And so, PZAP estimated that the 102 vote margin, though it may be relevant to individual candidate interest, is not a legal basis for ordering a general recount.

In another decision, P ZAP refused both the PDK candidate's complaint, Kryeziu's stance, as unbashed.

Kryeziu had claimed that the recounting of 185 polling had brought an additional 589 votes in his favour, and that this created objective doubt of the accuracy of the count even in other locations that were not included in the recount process.

However, PZAP concluded that the results of the recount have not included any systematic pattern of inaccuracies and that changes in the candidates' votes have been distributed in both directions, with candidates they have won and others who have lost votes.

The panel estimated that an extraordinary measure as a complete recount of preferential votes at the country level cannot be ordered on the basis of hypothetical claims, but only when there is objective evidence showing that the election outcome has been seriously violated.

PZAP stressed that neither Hadziu nor Kryeziu have provided concrete evidence, results forms, observer reports or other documents that would support allegations of widespread irregularities in the counting process.

As a result, the panel decided that both complaints would be rejected as groundless. /Periscopi/