The large difference in the number of votes for some candidates for deputies, in the results within the parties, according to lawyers, constitutes a case for the Prosecutor's Office. While excluding the possibility of "human errors" in cases of differences of up to hundreds or thousands, the lawyers said that action should be taken on the basis of suspicions of committing the criminal offense of "falsification of voting results". The recount process, so far, highlighted differences from a few votes, to tens, hundreds, and for certain candidates within the parties up to thousands, in relation to the results issued at the Municipal Counting Centers.
In the assessment of lawyers, cases where the difference in the result reaches three and four digits constitute cases for the Prosecutor's Office.
Although he mentioned a "space for human and technical errors," lawyer Arbër Jashari said that the recount is proving that in certain cases there is no such thing.
"I consider it normal that where one works, mistakes can be made, especially when dealing with numbers and vote counts, but the errors that are now coming to light during a vote recount show that there is a clear tendency to manipulate the voting results in favor of some candidates for MPs," said Arbër Jashari.
Cases of major changes, according to lawyer Visar Rrecaj, should be investigated for the possible commission of the criminal offense of falsification of voting results.
"Human error with one, two, five, let's say ten at the national level, when we have to count 1 million ballots. However, ballots for one candidate that go plus or minus 1900 are no longer an error, there is theft. There is a criminal offense. And, the State Prosecutor's Office, since the day this discrepancy emerged, should have gone to that polling station and ordered the arrest of all those who counted the votes there," said Visar Rrecaj.
In addition to sentences of one to three years in prison for this criminal offense, provided for in the first paragraph of Article 216 of the Criminal Code, for, as he put it, "deformation of civic will," lawyer Rrecaj mentioned the possibility of greater punishment.
"The sentences range from three to five years in prison. And of course, I believe that the court should not have mercy and should impose, within the framework, the maximum for these criminal offenses, because the will of citizens must not be affected," said Visar Rrecaj.
Until this stage of the recount process of the early parliamentary elections, at least publicly, the Prosecution has not announced the opening of any case or the launch of any investigation.TV Dukagjini/
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