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· Year of Establishment​ : 2000

The Central Elections Commission is the highest permanent state body, charged with the administration of elections with the aim of guaranteeing and respecting the principles, rights, guarantees, constitutional and legal, in the conduct of elections.

CEC Albania is compoused by three bodies:

 1. State Election Commissioner

 2. Regulatory Commission

 3. Appeals and Sanctions Commission

·         State Elections Commissioner

State Elections Commissioner (the Commissioner) is a monocratic body that exercises executive powers. Commissioner manages the administration of the CEC and election administration, represents CEC in relation to the third parties. It supervises the activity of the election administration, monitors the activity of electoral subjects, state bodies and institutions of the media in regard to elections and referendums. Commissioner is responsible for the implementation of the Electoral Code fairly, accurately, correctly and uniformly by all the institutions, subjects or the individuals responsible for tasks and obligations according to the law. Commissioner exercises on behalf of CEC the powers assigned by special laws, and whichever authorization that this law does not explicitly recognize to the Regulator or the KAS.

The Albanian Parliament, with decision no. 56/2020, elected as State Elections Commissioner, Mr. Ilirjan CELIBASHI.

Regulatory Commission

The Regulatory Commission (Regulatory) is composed of 5 members, one of whom exercises the duty of the chair. The Regulatory Commission (the Regulator) is the body competent for the approval of acts of a normative nature about elections and of setting election rules. The Regulator operates part-time and conducts its activity in open public meetings convened by the Commissioner.

Appeals and Sanctions Commission (KAS)

It is a collegial body, consisting of 5 members. The Complaints and Sanctions Commission (CSC) is the competent body to administratively examine and resolve complaints against acts of the Commissioner and CEAZ decisions, and imposes disciplinary measures/ administrative sanctions, upon the Commissioner’s request.

·         CEC Administration

In performing and accomplishing the tasks that derive from the Election Code, the CEC administration is composed of civil servants. General Secretary is the highest civil servant in the CEC’s administration.

·         Election Administration

Commissions of Electoral Administration Zones (CEAZ)

CEAZ is responsible for the administration of elections in the electoral administration zone. There are 92 EAZs throughout Albania and 92 Commissions of Electoral Administration Zones (CEAZ) have been established respectively.

CEAZ duties are defined in the Electoral Code (Article 33 of the Electoral Code). The CEAZ accomplishes its tasks in an impartial, professional and transparent way, in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Code and other acts issued by the Central Election Commission. The CEAZ is composed of 7 members and the secretary, who are appointed by the proposals of the parliamentary parties.

Voting Center Commissions (VCC)

The VCC is a collegial body composed of 7 members, with one of the members exercising the duty of secretary. VCC members and the secretary are appointed only for the election period.

Proposals for the VCC members and secretary shall be made no later than 30 days prior to the election date. The CEAZ shall appoint the VCC members and secretary no later than 20 days prior to the election date.

In those VCCs where the seventh member belongs to the main party of the parliamentary majority, a member of the VCC representing the main party of the parliamentary majority shall be appointed as chair. In the rest of the VCCs, one of the members representing the main party of the parliamentary opposition shall be appointed as chair. The VCC secretary shall be of the opposite political affiliation to that of the VCC chair

Ballot Counting Centers (BCC)

No later than 40 days from the election date, the CEC designates the Ballot Counting Centre by decision. For counting the votes at the EAZ level, Ballot Counting Teams shall be established by CEAZ decision 10 days prior to the election date. There shall be two Counting Teams per each counting table.

The Ballot Counting Team (BCT) releases the results for each voting centre it counts. Ballot Counting Teams shall be composed of four members, one of the members as the first counter, one member as the secretary and two others are members.

Ballot Counting Team works with no less than two members. A Ballot Counting Team shall count no less than 5 voting centres and no more than 10 voting centres.

The Central Election Commission’s office is located in Tirana. Its address is: Street “Ibrahim Rugova”, Nr.4, Tirana, Albania,

Website: www.kqz.org.al / E-mail: info@kqz.org.al