Exit Poll in Albania, a transparent victory of Prime Minister Rama | EUROtoday

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A closed urns, an exit ballot carried out by the Albanian portal of knowledge “Albanian Post” confirms a transparent victory of the socialists of Prime Minister Edi Rama in right this moment’s insurance policies. According to the launched information, the Socialist Party would have obtained 79 of the 140 seats that make up the Albanian Parliament. The middle -right opposition led by Sali Berisha, alternatively, would have stopped at solely 54 seats.

The Rama-Berisha conflict

Candidates of 40 events are competing based mostly on a proportional system. But the actual duel was between Edi Rama, 60 years previous, chief of the socialist occasion since 2005, in search of a fourth consecutive mandate as Prime Minister, and Sali Berisha, 80 years previous, who right this moment aspires to an economically florid ‘nice Albania’. Berisha needed to mimic Trump not solely within the slogan but additionally in his public appearances, at all times bringing a baseball hat, with a blue shade, nevertheless, like that of his occasion. A selection that wishes to be a provocation in direction of the choice of the US State Department that within the period Biden declared him “non -grateful person” for “serious acts of corruption”. At his facet within the election marketing campaign, a guide of the occasion of Donald Trump, Chris Lacivita.

The vote of the diaspora

The nation, by far probably the most Europeanist within the Region, has waited 13 years between the acquiring of the standing of candidate for adhesion to the European Union and the opening of the negotiations in July 2022. Today a brand new problem is added: for the primary time, the diaspora voted for overseas. Albania, a rustic with low wages, is experiencing, like the remainder of the Balkans, an exodus of its inhabitants in the hunt for alternatives, particularly of probably the most educated younger individuals, to international locations corresponding to Germany and Italy. According to the official information of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), about 246,000 Albanians residing overseas are recorded to vote. In all, there are about 3.7 million.

The earlier elections

At the earlier elections, in April 2021, the Socialist Party (PS) led by Rama to acquire the third time period with 74 seats, defeating the middle -right coalition led by the Democratic Party (Pd) of Lulzim Basha, who had conquered 59.