While the capital remains under the smoke of protests and political tensions, the two main political forces in the country have chosen to put aside the rhetoric of the road to sit down at the negotiating table. This Tuesday marks a key development for the Special Parliamentary Commission for the Implementation of Electoral Reform.
Oerd Bylykbashi and Damian Gjiknuri act as if detached from political current events. In the premises of the “MAK Albania” hotel, precisely in the “Illyria 1” room, at 10:00, a consultation roundtable will be held with the central topic of political party financing. This process is considered one of the most delicate pillars of the reform, which aims to:
Increasing transparency for electoral funds.
Preventing illicit money in campaigns.
Stricter monitoring of party spending.
What makes this meeting special is the presence of representatives of the Socialist Party (SP) and the Democratic Party (PD). Despite the “flames” – both in the figurative sense of political clashes and in the literal sense of the recent protests on the streets of Tirana – the parties have agreed that electoral reform requires a technical consensus that cannot wait. This meeting comes at a critical moment when internationals have increased pressure for a comprehensive and timely reform, seeing party financing as an “Achilles heel” of Albanian democracy and the negotiation process.
