Ju falënderoj nga zemra për mbrëmjen e sotme në Tiranë.
Një mbështetje e jashtëzakonshme drejt fitores më të madhe në historinë e Shqipërisë.
Voto 9!
🇦🇱✌️ pic.twitter.com/sVDnBqGDQT— Lulzim Basha (@lulzimbasha_al) April 23, 2021
Intelligence suggests votes were switched in recent elections in the country of Albania, a source familiar with the matter told ITN yesterday.
Parliamentary elections were held in the southeastern European county in late April.
Albania’s left-wing Socialist Party captured 49% of the vote and 74 parliamentary seats, securing its third consecutive mandate. The Party has been in power in Albania since 2013.
Electronic identification for voters was used in the country for the first time this year.
The Socialist Party, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, captured it’s third consecutive mandate according to published vote totals. His opponent, Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha, conceded defeat but accused the Socialist Party of vote manipulation.
“I believed that due to the wonderful power of our people we would win and bring democracy back to Albania. That was not enough this time,” he said. He vowed to continue to fight “for democracy.”
Basha’s Democratic Party captured 39% of the vote and 59 seats in parliament. There are 140 total seats in Albania’s governing body.
On the day of the election it was revealed that the Socialist Party had used a massive database consisting of the personal information, such voting history and employment status, of over 900,000 Albanian citizens during the election. The revelation was made by Albanian news outlet Lapsi.al.
Prosecutors then demanded Lapsi turn the database over to them. They refused, arguing it could jeopardize their sources. Prosecutors then issued an order that computers, mobile phones and other electronic equipment belonging to the outlet be seized.
Only a last minute appeal to the European Court of Human Rights prevented the devices from being confiscated.
“The Court decided, in the interests of the parties and the proper conduct of the proceedings before it, to indicate to the Government of Albania, under Rule 39, that the authorities should stay the enforcement of the Specialised Anti-Corrpotiuon and Organised Crime Court of First Instance’s Interlocutory decisions no.131 of 18 April 20201 and refrain from seizing any data storage devices and computer/electronic data belonging to the applicants,” a decision by the ECHR read.
Manipulation of internal Albanian affairs is not new. An email released by WikiLeaks in 2016 revealed that in 2011, left-wing financier George Soros instructed then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on how to deal with deadly political demonstrations taking place in the country at the time. As part of those instructions Soros included a list of people who should be dispatched to the country as official mediators. The European Union would ultimately select one of those people for the role.
“Soros got the U.S. and other accomplices to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign state,” wrote Thomas Lifson in the American Thinker at the time the emails were released. “How is this not huge news?”