Open Data Albania is presenting evidence regarding the Economic Power of twenty-seven primary shareholders in Television Media, specifically within Business Companies that oversee the operation of major screens and television channels. As the foremost television entities in the country, the ranking includes 14 companies that hold licenses issued by the Audiovisual Media Authority, while also reporting declared capital and profits. We will detail the economic…
Open Data Albania is bringing up to date the distribution of individual grants in the frame of the Reconstruction Program after the Earthquake, in non Election months, throughout the 2020-2023 period, and in the months part of Election Campaigns (30 days before voting). Construction or Reconstruction grants have benefited families damaged by the natural disaster, whose residential houses have been classified as damaged or uninhabitable.…
Open Data Albania is analyzing the Structure of State Budget Expenditures for the 2005-2022 period. The total expenditures of the State Budget are non-refundable payments, made by the government for the fulfillment of its functions (healthcare, defense, education, maintaining order, etc.). The Structure of Expenditures consists of several categories, such as Capital Expenditures, which are investments and public works with long-term effects and sustainability, Current…
In this article, we are disclosing the statistics regarding the parcels of land offered for Strategic Investments in Coastal Tourism in the South Riviera. The article is based on well-structured data obtained from the Open Corporates Albania website, a platform that has created digital passports containing information on the ownership, management and operation of business companies, including the Strategic Investor and Albania 1 Euro Program…
Open Data Albania is ranking economic operators announced as successful bidders in the Contracting Procedure for the Reconstruction Program after the earthquake of November 26, 2019. The period under review is January 2020 to April 2023. The data under examination are part of the Open Data’s monitoring of Public Contracts by way of its two databases, Reconstruction Program Contracting in Municipalities and Contracting carried out by the…
In this article, we will work on two hypothetical projections using the 2021 election results. More specifically, regarding the allocation of the MP mandates, considering and juxtaposing: Option A: Current distribution of MP Mandates, using the Proportional Regional system versus the Hypothetical Scenario of a National Proportional system. Option B: Current Mandate distribution through the with Proportional Regional system and the new legal stipulations versus…
Open Data Albania is examining the statistics regarding Personal Income Tax, focusing on the Payroll tax. The data are sourced from the General Directorate of Taxes (DPT), and are divided into tax revenues for salaries of employees part of the State Administration and employees in the Private Sector. In 2022, an amount of ALL 28.3 billion were collected from the payroll tax, or 11.6% more…
Open Data Albania is bringing the statistics, regarding Electricity Price of Acquisition and Sale by the Albanian Electric Power Company s.a., (KESH), for the period January-May 2023, up to date. Open Data has previously published several articles regarding the price of sale and acquisition of electricity from KESH throughout different periods. Let’s not forget that, during last year, in 2022, due to the energy crisis,…
Open Data Albania is examining the data regarding the 2023 elections outcomes, focusing on the contrast between the number of votes cast on behalf of the mayoral candidates, number of votes secured by the political entity they represent. This will also serve to determine whether, in certain electoral areas, the candidate has performed better than the Political Subject. But, in analyzing such fact, we should…
In the local elections of 2023, only 38.23% of registered voters participated in the voting. According to data from the Central Election Commission for the May 14th elections, there were 3,650,658 registered voters, but only 1,395,645 voters cast their votes. Although the number of registered voters has been increasing year after year, the number of those who participated in the elections is the lowest in…
Open Data Albania is reflecting the results of turnout by municipalities in the country, in the 2023 local elections, comparing them with the last elections that correspond with the parliamentary ones, as well as with the last normal local elections that correspond to the year 2015. Local elections were also held in 2019, but due to the boycott of the elections by the opposition, the…
In the May 2023 Local Government Election process at the country level, 43,127 invalid votes were cast in the voting process for mayors. This is 3% of those who voted. In the Municipal Council vote, the number is higher with 50,613 invalid ballots or 3.6% of the total number of participants. Source: CEC Comments and Analyses: Open Data Albania At the national level, the highest…
There are 699,766 registered citizens, bestowed by the law with the right to vote in the Municipality of Tirana, in the elections of May 14, 2023. Of these, 302,374 was the number of voters who voted for the mayoral seat, whereas 302,356 voted for the Municipal Council. Which means that, 18 more people have chosen to vote for the position of Mayor, but not for…
The State Budget collected 206.5 billion Albanian lekëë(ALL) in the first quarter of 2023, which is an increase of 9.7% compared to the same period of the previous year. The January-April 2023 quarter marked tax revenues amounting to 136 billion ALL, which is 7.4% higher than the same period a year ago, and 0.8% higher compared to the quarterly plan. Non-tax revenues experienced a decline…
There have been 9 regular (not early) Local Election Processes held within the timeframe of 1992-2023 in the following years: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2023. During the political period of 1991-2023, partial elections have also been conducted, with early elections taking place due to the termination of the mandates of the relevant Mayors. Table: Electoral Processes for Local Government according…
