The counting of all votes from the June 7 elections was completed within ten days.
The Vetëvendosje Movement, as the first party, received 382,865 votes or 47.13 percent of the total, a result that provides it with 53 seats in the Assembly.
The Democratic Party won 157,893 votes or 19.44 percent and secured 22 mandates.
The Democratic League received 135,559 votes or 16.69 percent, which translates into 18 seats, while the Alliance won 54,731 votes or 6.74 percent, which provides it with 7 seats in the Assembly.
The counting of mail-in votes, conditional votes, and those from the Voters with Special Needs Program also concluded on Wednesday.
The next step in the process is the recount. The CEC's plan is to include about 8 percent of the ballot boxes in this process.
With this distribution of mandates, the Vetëvendosje Movement has the opportunity to form a government without the need for a coalition with other Albanian parties.
But, for the election of the president, an issue for which the country went to early elections, an agreement between political parties is needed.
With 53 Vetëvendosje MPs and 10 MPs from non-Serb communities, an agreement with PDK would secure 85 votes in the Assembly.
This number is consistent with the position of the leader of the LVV, Albin Kurti, who during the efforts to elect the president in April had stated that a quorum of 85 or 86 deputies provides certainty for a successful process.
An agreement with the LDK would secure 81 votes, just one more than the constitutional minimum of 80 deputies needed to complete the first and second rounds of voting for president.
More difficult is the possibility of forming a government without Vetëvendosje.
PDK, LDK, and AAK together have 47 MPs.
To secure a majority of 61 votes, they would need 14 more deputies, which means that, in addition to non-Serb communities, the votes of the Serbian List would also be needed.
After the terrorist attack in Banjska in 2023, Albanian parties have not cooperated with the Serbian List, after its former deputy leader, Milan Radoićić, took responsibility for organizing the attack that killed Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku.
