The Electoral College dismisses Alibeaj's lawsuit, the Meta-Berisha coalition continues the race for the May 14 elections, Celibashi threatens with sanctions those who abuse the DP symbols

The Electoral College dismissed the lawsuit of the Democratic Party for not registering the Meta-Berisha coalition in the May 14 elections. In his complaint, Alibeaj demanded the deregistration of the coalition, claiming that the Meta-Berisha duo committed serious legal violations by using the PD symbols, initials and name. But with the decision given by the Electoral College, the Meta-Berisha coalition, "We win together" will continue the race for the local elections on May 14, but without the name of the DP involved. The group that made the decision consisted of Sokol Ibi, Manjola Xhaxho, Edlira Petri, Esmeralda Xhili and Alma Kolgjoka. During the session at the Electoral College, Alibeaj's legal representative Indri Sefa said that the coalition agreement is in violation. "There are 4 parties in the coalition, including DP. This agreement is in violation. The agreement is in the core document. This is signed by a person who has no tag. DP is registered as a special electoral subject. The commissioner made a decision where he removed only the name. The commissioner takes action where he must return the document to correct the defects. In this case it should have been the same situation. KAS did not give us the opportunity to review the case", declared Sefa. But the representatives of the CEC declared that it is not true that the representatives of the Democratic Party requested to change the document, so the Electoral College decided to dismiss the lawsuit. KAS did not give us the opportunity to review the case", declared Sefa. But the representatives of the CEC declared that it is not true that the representatives of the Democratic Party requested to change the document, so the Electoral College decided to dismiss the lawsuit. KAS did not give us the opportunity to review the case", declared Sefa. But the representatives of the CEC declared that it is not true that the representatives of the Democratic Party requested to change the document, so the Electoral College decided to dismiss the lawsuit.

Use of DP symbols, Celibashi: One party is prohibited from using

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Ilirjan Celibashi, has stated that the issue of denunciation of the symbols of the Democratic Party will be verified. Asked yesterday by journalists during a press conference about Enkelejd Alibeaj's denunciation of Sali Berisha regarding the use of the symbols of the Democratic Party, Celibashi emphasized that the matter should be examined and that when similarities are found that confuse voters, one side will its use is prohibited. "We have to look at the case, I don't know what happened fixed, but the symbols of a party cannot be used by another party or electoral entity. If this is verified, the entity that is found with symbols of another party, the subject in question is prohibited from using it. Even for cases of similarity, if it creates confusion among the voters, its use will be prohibited." declared Celibashi. Meanwhile, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Ilirjan Celibashi, said that they do not yet know how many candidates in total the deputy Enkelejd Alibeaj will enter in the May 14 elections. Likewise, Celibashi emphasized that this confusion occurs due to the fact that some of the documentation is submitted to the CEC, while another part is submitted to the CEAZ. "We still do not have that information, this is because part of the documentation is submitted to the CEC, the rest to the CEAZ, I believe today or tomorrow we will have official information after we have evaluated the relevant documentation. Anyway, I can give you some data, there are 24 electoral subjects that have deposited the multi-name lists in the CEC, 39 have deposited them in the CEC, it turns out that there are 832 lists of candidates for council members, 147 candidates for mayors, documentation filed for 147 candidates, 7 from voters, 5 for municipal councilors and 2 for mayors. In total, we have 22,607 candidates who are in the verification process. We consider the lists we approved today official. It is a voluminous process", underlined Celibashi.

What happened?

"Together We Win" is the name of Sali Berisha's coalition with Ilir Meta, Vangjel Dule and Nard Ndoka. However, Sali Berisha has also challenged Ilirjan Celibashi's decision not to recognize him as DP chairman, including the logo of the Democratic Party in the coalition. Thus, with this agreement reached, this coalition will enter the May 14 race for Mayor with the candidates from the 'Primaries' and with joint lists for members of the municipal councils. In the official document submitted to the Central Election Commission (CEC) it is stated that within this coalition, in addition to Ilir Meta's Freedom Party, Nard Ndoka's PDK and Vangjel Dula's PBDNJ, the initial logo of PD is also included .