The Fier Prosecutor's Office has sent to trial a person who, after investigations, has shown that in the local by-elections for the municipality of Lushnja, held in March 2022, he voted twice.
The defendant with the initials H.Gj. is accused of the criminal offense of "voting more than once or without identification", provided for by article 327/a pg.1 of the Criminal Code.
"Within the framework of criminal proceedings no. 108 of 2023, at the conclusion of the investigations for this criminal proceeding, the prosecution has taken the defendant citizen H.Gj., and has requested that the case be sent to court, after it was proven that, in the local by-elections in the Municipality of Lushnje held on 06.03.2022, the defendant H.Gj. voted twice at the polling station ZAZ 54 Dushk, Municipality of Lushnje. From the process of cross-referencing the data of the electronic voter identification device (PEI), located in every Voting Center of the Republic of Albania, it resulted that, the defendant voted the first time as a VCC commissioner in VC 2818, ZAZ 54, Dushk, based on Article 58 of the Electoral Code, and the second time in VC 2817, ZAZ 54, Dushk, as a resident", the prosecution body announces. (A2 Televizion)