The International Monetary Fund announced on Wednesday that had interrupted the Stand-By Arrangement with Kosovo due to the Kosovo’s government decision to carry on with its spending programme.
“An 18-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) approved by the IMF Executive Board in July 2010 was interrupted in 2011,” the IMF announced in Pristina. IMF,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Tom Countryman criticizes the Central Election Commission decision to count votes in the wrong ballot boxes
The Government of Albania had decided to introduce tolls on its first highway in order to pay for its maintenance and intends to privatize other highways currently under construction, the Prime Minister Sali Berisha said on Tuesday.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele on Tuesday expressed doubts over the legality of the results in the race for Tirana mayor.
(albanianeconomy.com) Opposition leader Edi Rama said on Tuesday that he will challenge the Central Election Commission decision to declare the government backed candidate Lulzim Basha as winner of the mayoral race for Tirana “in legal ways”. Mr. Rama, who according to CEC decision lost by 81 votes out of 250,000, said he is confident that the Electoral Court will undo the decision and will declare him winner.
Tirana’s political elite has failed once again to hold elections according to international standards, two decades after the country emerged from the Stalinist regime of former dictator Enver Hoxha.
The Central Election Commission of Albania announced on Monday evening that the government backed candidate Lulzim Basha had won the local elections by receiving 81 votes (out of 250,000) more than the opposition leader Edi Rama.
The Central Election Commission is expected to announce the final results for the mayoral race of Tirana today amid international pressure and daily protests outside its premises. The counting of stray votes ended on the early hours of Monday, 23 May, more than two weeks after the elections.
In the debate following the local elections of 8 May, the Socialist and Democrat politicians remembered to each-other the countless events of vote frauds and manipulation schemes employed by both parties in the last twenty years for which none of them feels remotely sorry.