Albanian political parties ended on Saturday all their campaigning activities, a day before the country goes to the polls in its seventh parliamentary elections since 1991.

Polling stations are set to open at 7:00 a.m., and close at 7:00 p.m. local time on Sunday. The first preliminary results are expected on Monday.

Some 3.1 million voters in the country of a 3.6-million population will elect 140 deputies for the future parliament.

About thirty-three political parties, grouped in four alliances, are vying to make it to the unicameral parliament.

Incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Chairman of the main opposition Socialits Edi Rama, who is also the mayor of Tirana, are the two main contenders in the race.

Several pre-election opinion polls have put the two rivals neck-and-neck, but given Berisha's Democratic Party a slight advantage.

Some 3,000 monitors, including more than 400 foreigners from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe election-monitoring mission, are to observe the voting process. 　

Source:Xinhua