Voters in Albania headed to the polls on Sunday for the nation’s eleventh normal elections because the 1991 fall of the nation’s communist regime.
Polling started at 7 am native time (0500GMT) and can proceed till 7 pm (1700GMT). Over 3.71 million registered voters are eligible to solid ballots.
Fifty-three political events and three pre-election coalitions are competing for the 140 seats in parliament.
The ruling Socialist Party, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, has been main in pre-election polls.
The principal opposition Democratic Party, led by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, can be among the many favorites and is working below the Greater Albania Alliance with 25 different events.
Other events within the race embody the Euro-Atlantic Coalition, Opportunity Party, Joint Movement Party, Albania Is Happening Initiative, Social Democratic Party, Homeland Movement, Albanian National Alliance, and the New Democracy Alliance.
Approximately 100 observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are monitoring the election throughout 31 nations.
Under the nation’s election legislation, in parliamentary elections, held each 4 years, events should go the 1% electoral threshold to enter the meeting.
Albania is residence to numerous ethnic teams together with Macedonians, Greeks, Montenegrins, Aromanians, Bosniaks, Serbs, Bulgarians, Egyptians, and Roma.
The inhabitants is predominantly Muslim, with vital Catholic, Orthodox, Bektashi, Protestant, and different spiritual minorities.
Unofficial outcomes of the election are anticipated to be introduced round midnight (2200GMT).
Source: www.anews.com.tr