Albania's PM issues order for ban on use of state admin sources in electoral campaign

 - 11.04.2011

In the threshold of the electoral campaign for May 8 local polls, Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha issued last week an order for a ban on use of state administration sources in electoral campaign. Albania's prime minister presented the plan to the meeting of the Council of Ministers. While considering the campaign on diet of administration sources, the prime minister said that participation into the activities of the electoral campaign of the prime minister and every other official will be made at the party expenses. The prime minister appreciated that the order is issued at a moment of separation from a written practice. “Every campaign is a new beginning, a great opportunity for every politician and it is a pleasure to have these important novelties in this campaign”, said the prime minister. In function of having this order obeyed, Albania's PM Berisha said that the State Police will be entitled to block official car of every official in the campaign, while the High State Control Office and all the other administrative audits will be asked to take tough controls on all funds so that public money is not diverted by the central or local authority into party rallies and other abuse. Source; Government