Central Election Commission (Albania)

The Central Election Commission (Albanian: Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve), commonly abbreviated in Albanian as KQZ, is a permanent, non-independent partisan statutory agency responsible for conducting parliamentary and local elections in the Republic of Albania. The commission, which overlooks the local election commissions in the country^[2] is made up of 7 party affiliated members representing the distribution of seats in the Albanian Assembly.^[3]