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May 14, 2023 Election Outcomes, Number of Votes for Mayors versus the Number of Votes for the Political Entity they Represent

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…

Lack of participation in the 2023 Elections, Shrinked Turnout by Region. 2023 compared to 2021 Process

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…

Turnout in the May 2023 Election by Municipalities, Turnout 2005 – 2023

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…

Invalid Votes in the Electoral Process of May 14, 2023, Invalidity by regions and municipalities, Processes 2011 to 2023

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…

Municipality of Tirana, Data on Local Elections 2023: Participation, Invalid votes and Outcomes, trends compared to the 2015 Elections, List of Municipal Councilman

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…

Revenue in the State Budget, January – April 2023, Level of Implementation

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…

Local elections according to the Territorial-Administrative Division 1992-2023

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…

May 14, 2023, Election Results: Council Members by Political Subject and Municipality

In the present article, we are laying out the number of Councilors in the Municipal Council, following the May 14th elections, based on how Electoral Subjects performed in each of country’s Municipalities. We have set out to identify which are the parties that achieved the majority in each council, winning more than 50% of council seats. Likewise, we will introduce the new structure of representation…

Projection of Mandate distribution for MPs in the 2025 elections based on data results for Subjects of the May 14 Electoral Process

The team of analysts at Open Data Albania has made a Projection of the allocation of Mandates in the Parliamentary Elections to be held in 2025. For this projection, we relied on the regional results of the electoral subjects for the municipal councils in the elections held on May 14, 2023. If the 2025 elections are held applying the same electoral system, with the same…

High Ranking State Officials’ Salary from April 2023, Prime Minister’s Salary against Other Budgetary Categories ratio

The Parliament of the Republic of Albania approved on 25.05.2023, the law that regulates the salaries of high ranking state officials, namely “On some changes in law no. 9584, dated 17.07.2006, “On Salaries, Remuneration and Structure of Constitutional Independent Institutions and other independent Institutions, created by law”, as amended. The law was deposited in the Assembly on April 7, 2023, but on May 23, 2023,…

Cases Lost in Arbitration: Issues and Liabilities of the Albanian State, May 2022

In May 2022, the Albanian Government officially reported and recognized Liabilities, as a result of lost arbitration cases, in the amount of 175,857,595 Euros. The latter have been accumulated due to 15 Arbitration cases, in which our state has lost going against Business Parties. Sixty-three percent of the lost value belongs to one case, known as the Becchetti case. In two years, the actual liabilities…

Business Companies operating as Football Teams and co-owned by Municipalities, April 2023

This article will examine business companies that operate as football clubs, while are, simultaneously owned, fully or partially, by the Municipalities. For each of the companies we will also see their annual turnover, as well as the profit before tax. What we observe is that, the local football clubs companies, carry consistently financial losses and generally, are kept active through financing and subsidies from the…

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Open Contracting Albania Project – Impact on the Media

Posted: December 1, 2023

During the period of May to November 2023, data and products from the project titled ‘Instil a Watchdog Culture, Open Contracting Albania, and Red Flag Index Project’ have become part of the Information Sessions with Journalists and Media Representatives in the country. Using information and tender passports, journalists have prepared dozens of investigative articles shedding light on irregularities and issues within municipality tenders or Reconstruction…

Four years after the Earthquake. The government has no concrete results in mitigating its consequences. Problems with the Budget, corrupt tenders and serious cases of abuse

Posted: November 28, 2023

Four years after the Earthquake of November 26, 2019 and its severe Consequences in human life, housing and infrastructure, AIS finds that the State and the Albanian Government cannot make an inventory of where we are in dealing with its consequences and rehabilitation. November 2023 There is no Clear Report on: the number of families provided with housing through the Reconstruction Program Reconstructed public works,…

The Money and Power Database enables the public control-verification of the phenomenon of nepotism.

Posted: November 28, 2023

Media reports that such phenomenon affects 70% of Senior Officials Brahaj: The appointment of family members risks escalating into Structured Corruption The Inside Story Program by journalist Luljeta PROGNI brought an Investigation Report during the month of November, with evidence on concrete cases of employment of politicians’ family members in State Institutions. The report entitled “Political offsprings, coveted institutions transformed into nurseries of nepotism” provided…

Nepotism, Media reports that such phenomenon affects 70% of Senior Officials

Posted: November 28, 2023

Various reports on the employment of family members, spouses and children of MPs and high officials have recently been published in the media. The articles shed light on nepotism, preferential hiring and lack of meritocracy. The details published in said media reports have been extracted from datasets and documents published in the data base created by AIS Money and Power. This database oofers oppen access…

Started – February, Month of Civil Engagement for EU Integration

Posted: February 7, 2023

AIS / Open Data Albania presented a Policy Paper on Integrity Control of Public Contractors, EU practice and the Albanian Context Aranita Brahaj, the head of the Organization, emphasized that many companies in the country that have acquired the status of Contractor in Public Procurement; Investor in State Assets or Public Licenses in Strategic sectors, are Shell or Offshore companies with unidentified beneficial owners, located…

Reporter.al/ The major beneficiaries of the Reconstruction program

Posted: December 5, 2022

Companies linked to Socialist Party officials and a handful of businesses known for winning concessions or licenses are among the biggest beneficiaries of Reconstruction tenders, while work is dragging on beyond schedule. It’s 12:00 on a sunny March day and Evelina Zguro takes advantage of her lunch break to take a look at the pit, upon which her apartment building has just started to be…

Treasury Transaction is a service provided by AIS for ensuring information, transparency, and civic monitoring and accountability. Such service enables taxpayers to learn how their tax money is spent by their government and public institutions. The main source for such data is the Expenditure System of the Treasury Central Office. The information provided by AIS through its two portals, Spending Data Albania and Open Data Albania, contains all details about every payment, and treasury transaction carried out by the 1600 budgetary institutions in the country starting from January 2012.

Access to Information on Justice, and the integrity and promotion of individuals in the justice system.Data and documents on the justice system after the Reform. The new Access to Justice Info database aims at enhancing the integrity of processes and institutions through a data mine (base) and information made available to the public and journalists. Similarly, the website contains also a profile for every prosecutor , judge or member of the new justice institutions. The profile aims to provide easy to find documents on the education, professional experience, qualifications, promotion, vetting, self-declarations, and any other documents linked to new individuals in the system.

Following Open Local Government Procurement Program OpenLGP, that started its implementation in November 2015, this project is opening data for each procedure of public procurement of the 61 municipalities for one more year (in total, the database will be enriched with data for the two first years of the 61 municipalities, i.e. 2015 – 2017) and update procurement data already registered.

Creation of instruments that facilitate the finding, use, and visibility of the information about the distribution of public contracts by contractors/clients.eIncrease the capacity of local journalists in reporting on the dictribution of the public contracts by clients.e Identification of the distribution of public contracts (public money) by client’s gender.

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Open Contracting Albania Project – Impact on the Media

Four years after the Earthquake. The government has no concrete results in mitigating its consequences. Problems with the Budget, corrupt tenders and serious cases of abuse

The Money and Power Database enables the public control-verification of the phenomenon of nepotism.

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Nepotism, Media reports that such phenomenon affects 70% of Senior Officials

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