Today, the State Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi spoke with media representatives about the process of voting from abroad for Albanians living outside the territory of the Republic of Albania.
Information provided:
Registration of voters from abroad
- Statistics from the support service (phone/chatbot/email):
6914 citizens contacted by email,
2088 reserved calls,
839 total chatbot msg
540 total chatbot user msg - 294,155 number of citizens who have sent a request to PER
- 245,975 number of voters whose request was approved
- Tirana, the region with the highest % of approved requests – 21.3% or 52,425 citizens
- Kukësi, the region with the lowest % of approved requests – 6% or 3,970 citizens
- approximately 28 hours average time from the moment of receipt of the request to approval/rejection -1685 minutes
- 16,302, the highest number of requests per day (date 2 March 2025)
- 6900, average number of requests per day
- 6618, average number of reviews per day
- Germany, citizen A.B, the first voter to submit a request to PER on January 11 at 00.08
- Citizen B.H., the oldest voter registered in PER – 98 years old, date of birth 1927
- 25 times, the highest number of requests submitted by the same citizen
- 339 893, number of profiles created in PER
- 100%, system availability throughout the registration period
- 5% of citizens have chosen to use mobile web
- 5% of citizens have chosen to use desktop web
- 49% of citizens have chosen to use mobile app
Commissioner Celibashi emphasized that in the period March 9 – March 12 only registered voters have the right to request to make changes regarding their address and nothing more. Other data is accurate because it is cross-referenced with the Civil Registry data, while the address may need to be corrected by the voters for various reasons.
All citizens living outside the territory of the Republic of Albania and whose request to register as a voter from abroad has been rejected, have the right to appeal to the Tirana Judicial District Court, no later than April 11, 2025, through an online platform that I believe the Supreme Court has set up.
Electoral subjects
- 53 political parties registered as electoral subjects:
- 3 coalitions
- Coalition DP-Alliance for a Greater Albania, (26 constituent parties);
- Coalition “Nisma Shqipëria Bëhet”, (3 constituent parties);
- Coalition “Right for Development”, (2 constituent parties);
22 parties outside coalitions
Multi-name list
Party “Together Movement”
The SEC, in response to the interest of media representatives, stated that if the process of approving multi-name lists proceeds normally in terms of the foreseen deadlines, between April 8 and April 16 it is intended to complete the sending of ballots and electoral documentation.
The procedure for selecting the postal service operator is expected to be completed by the end of next week. The sending of ballots to voters from abroad will be by express service and traceable.
