Yesterday evening, Parliament voted on a series of changes in the government and legal amendments that were part of the McAllister+ deal between Prime Minister Edi Rama and opposition leader Lulzim Basha.
- All six technical ministers and the technical deputy prime minister were approved with more than 100 votes;
- Amendments to the Law for Audiovisual Media were approved. Television stations will be obliged to transmit political campaign ads free of charge;
- Amendments to the Penal Code were approved. Vote buying will be punishable with 1–5 imprisonment;
- Erinda Ballanca was approved as new National Ombudsman;
- Denar Biba, the former chair of the Central Election Commission (KQZ), was approved as member of the KQZ, KQZ member Klement Zguri became the new chair. This leaves the 4–3 balance in favor of the majority in the KQZ unchanged, but gives the chairmanship to the opposition;
- A months after the majority elected their members of the parliamentary ad-hoc committees that will select the candidates for the vetting institutions, also the opposition members were elected.
