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Not tops, still not so bad -- "Coordinated efforts to investigate and prosecute electoral crimes is a welcome development and follow-up is necessary to address persistent concerns of electoral malpractice. Media independence continues to be an issue and its electoral coverage has continued to give prominence to the main parties and transparency of campaign financing also remained limited."
Your -- https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/albania-joint-statement-high-representative-vice-president-kallas%C2%A0and-commissioner-kos-parliamentary_en

This 1d, nothing new on the election result except surprise at the margin of Rama's win.

"No-one expected there to be a qualified majority for a single party. It is like (Hungary's Prime Minister) Orban in his best days," said political analyst Lutfi Dervishi.

PS is on course to win 82 seats in the 140-seat parliament while PD would get 51 seats, local Top Channel TV said.

Rama has won favour from the West by accepting migrants from Italy and housing Afghans awaiting visa processing for the United States.

But ordinary voters at home say he runs the country on a system of patronage and has done little to eradicate graft and unemployment. Rama denies this, and yet hundreds of thousands of Albanians have emigrated since he came to power, in search of better prospects abroad.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/albanias-rama-on-brink-of-landslide-election-win/ar-AA1EFDcl?ocid=BingNewsSerp

I went for a Bing again. Stability is welcome in most quarters as long it is a reasonably just quiet.