Today, the State Election Commissioner Mr. Ilirjan Celibashi had a virtual meeting with regional representatives of Meta (Facebook) Ms. Kateryna Kruk, Regional Manager for Public Policy CEE and Mr Oskar Braszczyński, Partner Manager for Government, Politics & Nonprofits.

The focus of the meeting was to explore ways of cooperation and open direct communication channels with the world’s biggest social media group in view of our efforts to provide transparency for the Albanian political parties’ social media and online expenditure.

Mr Oskar Braszczyński presented Meta’s political ads transparency work and addressed our questions and inquiries. CEC Albania was given the full picture of the array of tools necessary to better implement the quest of full transparency in the Albanian political ads, especially during electoral timeframes.

The State Elections Commissioner, welcomed the opportunity to benefit from Meta’s political ads transparency program and maintain that this is an important step forward in tackling the challenge to provide full light to the real online expenditure of Albanian political parties’ ecosystem.