Celibashi provides details for voters in the Diaspora, here's when the ballots will be sent

2025-04-02 10:24:00, Politikë CNA

Celibashi provides details for voters in the Diaspora, here's when the

CEC Head Ilirjan Celibashi has provided details regarding the electoral process for voters from abroad.

Celibashi said that today the contract with the operator that will send the ballots to voters abroad will be formalized.

Celibashi stated that the dispatch of absentee ballots for voters will begin on April 8-9-10 and there will be a deadline until April 17 to cast their vote.

He also announced that the place where the votes of voters from abroad will be counted has been determined and will be at the Fetih Borova Sports Palace in Tirana's Olympic Park.

"Voters will not pay for this service. The cost is paid by the Albanian state. The total value of the contract with this operator is 9.2 million euros."

With an average price of 37.52 euros. Today we formalize a contract between the CEC and the operator. The process of printing votes for abroad has begun.

From the communication we have, the ballots are being produced in Slovenia.

We believe that between April 7-8, we will have the ballots here for voting from abroad, and from April 8-9-10, the envelopes and documentation that will be sent to voters abroad will be prepared.

The maximum deadline for sending the ballot is April 17. This is sufficient time according to the contractual postal services to send the envelopes to give voters 4 days to complete the ballot.

We are finishing a spot and a tutorial on everything an overseas voter needs to know and do regarding electoral documentation.

There will be a guide that will judge everything that the voter will have to do from the outside.

We have determined the location for counting the votes of voters from abroad, which will be the Feti Borova Sports Palace in the Olympic Park of Tirana. It will be accessible and observed by the media, various observers, party representatives and monitored by cameras. The footage will be live 24/7 until the end of the process.

"The final number of voters on the list is 245,935 voters on the list of voters from abroad," Celibashi said./ CNA