Albania's election enters 4th day, results remain unknown
The long drawn-out ballot counting process after Albania's weekend parliamentary election went into its fourth day on Wednesday, with results remaining unknown. With 98 percent of the votes counted, the Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Sali Berisha had gained 48.01 percent, against 44. 25 percent for the Socialists led by Tirana Mayor Edi Rama. And the leftist LSI, a breakaway from the Socialists, was third with 5.5 percent, preliminary results from Albania's Central Election Commission showed. There are still about 100 ballot boxes waiting to be counted and the process has been blocked as the two main camps accuse each other of tampering with the ballots to swing the... [read full story]
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