After 10 years, the right-wing won the right to lead the Municipal Council of Tirana. The preliminary results of May 8 give the “Alliance for the citizen” coalition 28 mandates in the Municipal Council in Tirana; meanwhile, the “Alliance for the future” coalition has 27 mandates.

In the creation of the biggest municipality’s council, the Socialists secured by themselves 25 counselors and 2 others are from their allies. The Democratic Party (DP) secured 19 counselor and the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) secured 5 mandates for the Council of Tirana, PDIU secured 2 mandates, and the Republican allies and those of the Movement for Legality provided each one mandate.

The compiler of the Electoral Code, Socialist Deputy Kastriot Islami explained for “AS” the technical details for the division of mandates between the coalitions according to the “De Hontis” formula and about the distribution of mandates within the coalitions according to “Sen Leger” formula.

“Considering that the system has two levels, that of the electoral subject and that of the political party, then there are two levels to distribute mandates depending on the votes. For the second level, the mandates have been distributed according to the “De Hontis” formula, and for the second level, we pass to “Sen Leger” formula. So, in the second level, the parties are placed close to the left-wing, and they are not divided with 1, 2, 3, 4, but with odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, and so on. In a way or another, this formula favors the small parties, while the first formula favors the big parties,” said Islami.

The Movement for National Development, which secured more votes in the Municipal Council of Tirana, compared to other small parties, could not win a mandate because it was not part of the coalitions of May 8 elections.