This was the main message highlighted in Inside Story on Top Channel, aired during the final week of the May 2025 electoral campaign. The report, titled “Electoral Labyrinths”, focused on the lack of transparency in electoral financing, the misuse of personal data, and problematic aspects of social media use during elections. In an interview for the program, Aranita Brahaj, Director of the organization AIS, pointed…
AIS, the organization promoting Open Data Albania, participated in the Career Day event held by the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, in May 2025. Over the past 14 years, our organization has developed a strong collaboration with the Faculty, engaging both students and academic staff. During the event, two of AIS’s Data Analysts and Open Data Albania promoters, Loida Hasa and Era Vukaj, introduced…
🚩 The current legal regulations hinder new political alternatives, disenfranchise 21% of active voters, and undermine the principle of representation 🚩 🚩 Open Data Albania predicted the 2025 election outcome two years in advance. 🚩In May 2023, following the local elections, the (youth-led) data analysis team at AIS / OpenDataAlbania created a projection based on the 2023 election results. According to this projection, if the…
From January 1 to April 30, 2025, the Council of Ministers paid salaries for temporary contract employees exceeding the number of staff positions approved in the official organizational chart (Treasury expenditure category 6002001[i]), which is twice the amount of the net salaries paid to employees officially approved in the organizational structure (as per the Treasury payment category code 6001001[ii]). Specifically, Treasury Category 6002001 (temporary employees outside the…
Over the past three years, a consistent pattern of flagged tenders has emerged, with businesses associated with or owned by politically exposed persons (PEPs) or individuals with conflicts of interest securing awarding contracts 🚩 These arguments have been officially documented in the 2023 Annual Report of the Special Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Prosecution Office (SPAK), which highlighted the misuse of procurement procedures at both the…
Between 2023 and 2025, the Special Prosecution Office Against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPAK) has taken significant action against several structured criminal groups suspected of involvement in electoral crimes during the 2021 elections, particularly in the districts of Shkodër, Durrës, Elbasan, and Lezha. Investigative media reports have revealed that some of these criminal groups, primarily involved in drug trafficking, were actively engaged in vote buying…
