Albanians began to cast ballots on Sunday to elect mayors and city councils, or parliaments, amid a tense political conflict with the opposition boycotting the municipal elections.
Voters cast their ballot at a polling station in Kamez town, central Albania on Sunday, June 30, 2019.
Albania’s President Ilir Meta is sympathetic to the opposition and declared that the vote is canceled, but the government under Prime Minister Edi Rama has refused to abide by that decision. On late Saturday the Democratic Party’s leader Lulzim Basha called on Albanians to boycott the vote and said they would hold non-violent protests.Rama cast his ballot in Surrel, a village near Tirana where he lives.
The opposition has been holding anti-government protests since mid-February when they also relinquished their seats in parliament.The ruling Socialists are the only candidates in 35 out of 61 districts, with some smaller leftist and center-right parties running against them in the rest.Thousands of police officers guarded the polling stations Sunday.
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