The Democratic Party returned to the request to extend the validity of identification documents, thus allowing 466 thousand citizens who do not have a valid document to vote on May 11.
The Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party, Oerd Bylykbashi, from the blue headquarters, called on the government to approve by normative act the extension of the validity of documents so that no one is discriminated against in these elections.
“Today, there are 466,000 citizens with the right to vote who do not have a valid identity document, neither an ID card nor a passport. The Albanian government extended the validity only for voters living outside Albania, discriminating against those who are in Albania. This discrimination is unconstitutional and endangers the right to vote of these 466,000 citizens who reside in Albania, and on May 11th want to vote and express their constitutional right. We ask the government to issue the normative act without delay and extend the validity of identity documents only for electoral reasons, so that these citizens on May 11th will be able to vote. We ask the CEC, as the supreme body in the conduct of the elections, to strongly request the government so that these citizens will be able to vote. We also draw the attention of international mechanisms for election observation, such as the OSCE-ODIHR, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and any other international institution, to "point out this violation of the rights of Albanians. This should be done now, immediately, so that on May 11th all Albanians have the right to speak out for change, to change this autocratic regime," said Bylykbashi.
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