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Electoral Systems in Albania as a Result of Political Wills Çeka, Blendi
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): January 2012
Publisher : Richtmann Publishing

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It is important to note that there is no perfect electoral system model and any country that has to select a new systemis facing a very difficult choice. Of course that is easy to predict the mechanical effects of the chosen system, but when it comesto the psychological effects, the matter is more complicated, because of the institutional, political, cultural and social implications.The choice of electoral system in order to produce positive effects for the political system and society itself must fit maximallywith the context in which it is applied. Questions such as: what is the experience with democracy and democratic institutions,what can be classified as country level of heterogeneity, what is citizen participation in elections, how important is to improve thegender balance, how important is political stability, seem to guide us in determining the most appropriate electoral system for acountry. What is important to note, is that there is no electoral system that guarantees all the dimensions above, so the choiceshould reflect a compromise and fundamental interests of society.
Albania’s Parliamentary Election of 2009 – Dependence from Permanent Change of Election System Çeka, Blendi
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 9 (2012): Special Issue
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The experiment with the new election system created some anomalies which are reflected to the entire model of democracyAlbania is applying. The election final result resembles more to a majoritarian product than a proportional one. The new election systemalso produced ideologically questionable fragile majority and a very strong opposition in terms of number of mandates in the parliament.Permanent institutional crisis, lack of mutual trust and understanding between the main political parties, dysfunctional parliament, andfailure to reach the candidate status as the next step to EU membership are key indicators of the impacts that the new election systemhad on entire political system. Due to that, there are a lot of initiatives coming from different actors aiming the modification of the actualelection system in order to increase the proportional nature of it. The political discourse in Albania is coming back to the starting pointwhere new modifications of the election system are required in order to minimize the negative impacts of the actual one, without takinginto consideration the country profile. In case there are modifications, the main parties remain the key designers of them, which meantheir immediate interests are fully respected. The question is what is considered a good election system for Albania? As long as thequestion is not correctly addressed the best change political actors can do to the election system is for the first time after twenty yearsnot changing it.
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