On Tuesday 2 July, European External Action Service spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic told EUROPE that the elections held on 30 June in Albania in a context of political division had been “generally peaceful and well administered”.
Turnout in the elections, boycotted by the opposition, is low - 21% - and in 31 of the 61 municipalities there was only one candidate.
“The newly elected local bodies must now be in a position to work according to their constitutional competencies, to the...