Press Release
Albanian Helsinki Committee
trains its own trainers for the
local elections of February 18,
2007
10.02.2007
In order to
monitor the local elections of
February 18, 2007, the Albanian
Helsinki Committee accredited
150 long-term observers who are
going to monitor the
pre-election process aspects,
the electoral campaign, the
voting process and the vote
counting in Tirana, Durrės,
Fier, Gjirokastėr, Korēa,
Shkodra, Vlora and Elbasan and
in some communes of the country
as well.
Following the
observer accreditation from the
CEC, on January 27, 2007, AHC
conducted their training related
to such issues as: the Electoral
Code and its changes, the CEC
guidelines, the methodology of
the monitoring of the
pre-election and election
process, the observance of the
Code of Conduct, the reporting
manner. Part of the training was
the observer role, his/her
qualities, the way the
complaints are submitted to the
Commission, when needed and the
reporting of the monitoring
outcome.
In the
pre-election process, AHC shall
monitor aspects that are related
to the vote exercising such as:
the declaration of the
preliminary and the final lists,
the list verification and their
correction, citizen information
about the lists and the manner
of their correction, the
selection of the polling
stations, the setting up of the
Zone Electoral Commissions
(ZEC-s) and the counting groups
and the training of the members,
the observance of the electoral
silence and the Code of Conduct.
In particular, the Albanian
Helsinki Committee observers
will focus their attention on
the monitoring of the voting
process and the vote counting.
Based on the data
collected from the monitoring,
AHC, depending on the case shall
come up with releases or shall
address the problems of the
relevant institutions and
following the conclusion of the
voting process shall pronounce
on the electoral progress and
the level of the observance of
standards for free, fair and
democratic elections.
Representatives
of the monitoring mission of
OSCE/ODIHR present in Albania to
monitor the 2007 electoral
election were invited and
participated in this training.
