section_path: Aftermath/Conduct
section_name: Conduct
paragraph_text: Conduct
  
  OSCE stated that "elections to Albania's parliament were competitive and professionally managed, the authorities rose to the challenge of organising out-of-country voting for the first time and candidates could mostly campaign freely, but they were marked by widespread misuse of public resources and institutional power by the ruling party PS, while numerous reports of pressure on public employees and other voters as well as cases of intimidation were of concern."
  
  Some Albanian citizens in Greece claimed they never received their ballots, despite reports of large volumes of completed ballots arriving from the country. PS activists were accused of involvement in these alleged irregularities.
  
  The CEC suspended the counting of ballots from Greece after the request from the Democratic Party officials. However then they resumed the counting, with the head of CEC declaring the Democratic Party offered no proof of fraud. The Democratic Party still continues to contest the decision.