Edi Rama is an Albanian politician and painter who has been serving as the 33rd and incumbent prime minister of Albania since 2013 and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005. He was Minister of Culture,Youth and Sports from 1998 to 2000. First elected mayor of Tirana in 2000,he was reelected in 2003 and 2007.
Fatos Thanas Nano is an Albanian socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of Albania in 1991,from 1997 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2005. He was the first leader and founder of the Socialist Party of Albania and a member of the Albanian Parliament from 1991 to 1993 and 1997 to 2009. He reformed the anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist ideology of the Labor Party of Albania into social democracy for its successor,the Socialist Party. During his leadership,the Socialist Party,as a result of reforms,joined the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists. Nano was a candidate in the 2007 presidential election but did not win. He again tried in the 2012 presidential election,but he did not even qualify as a candidate,because the leaders of parties in Parliament obstructed their respective MPs to elect him as candidate in the elections.
Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician who served as President of Albania from 2017 to 2022.
In 1991,the Socialist Party of Albania,with specific social democratic ideology took control of the country through democratic elections. One year later the Democratic Party of Albania won the new elections. After 1990,Albania has been seeking a closer relationship with the West. What followed were deliberate programs of economic and democratic reform,but the implementation of capitalism led to the proliferation of pyramid schemes. Chaos in late 1996 to early 1997,as a result of the collapse of these pyramid schemes,alarmed the world and prompted the influx of international peacekeeping forces. In 1995,Albania was accepted into the Council of Europe and requested membership in NATO and is a potential candidate country for accession to the European Union. The workforce of Albania has continued to emigrate to Western countries,especially Greece and Italy.
Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 28 June 2009. No alliance achieved 71 deputies on its own needed to form a parliamentary majority. A coalition government was formed by the Democratic Party and Socialist Movement for Integration.
Petrit Vasili is an Albanian politician. He was the chairman of Socialist Movement for Integration party and minister of health in the cabinet of Sali Berisha.
Bujar Faik Nishani was an Albanian politician. He served as the president of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017.
Edmond Spaho is an Albanian Democratic Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Korca since 25 April 2021.
The following lists events from the year 2011 in Albania.
The Political Academy of the Socialist Party of Albania or simply Political Academy is the first academy of modern left-wing leadership in Albania. It is an academy established by the Socialist Party of Albania and the contribution of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The academy holds its lectures in Golem,near Durrës.
Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 25 June. They had initially been scheduled for 18 June,but after a possible boycott was announced by opposition parties during a political crisis that lasted three months,an agreement was reached between all parties on 18 May to change the date. The Socialist Party won 74 of the 140 seats.
The following lists events in the year 2017 in Albania.
The 2017 Albanian opposition protests were a series of anti-government protests,largely in Tirana,which centered around poverty,corruption,the illicit drug situation in Albania,fear of electoral fraud in the parliamentary elections,and alleged manipulation of the voting process by the government.
Ogerta Manastirliu is an Albanian Socialist Party politician. She is the Minister of Education,Sport and Youth of Albania since 12 September 2023 and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tirana. On 13 March 2017,she was appointed as Minister of Health. She held the office until 21 May 2017,due to the general election.
The Twenty-ninth Legislature of Albania,officially known as the VIII Pluralist Legislature of Albania,is the legislature of Albania following the 2013 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Albanian Parliament. The party of the Prime Minister Edi Rama,PS,with its coalition partners obtained an absolute majority of 83.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Albania on 11 May 2025 to elect the 140 members of the parliament.
The third Government of Prime Minister Edi Rama is the 67th ruling Government of the Republic of Albania. The Government was officially confirmed by President Ilir Meta on 18 September 2021. Following the 2021 election,the Socialist Party won,for the third consecutive time,a majority of seats in the Albanian Parliament,and,for the second consecutive time,the ability to form a government without the need for a coalition.
The Second Government of the Prime Minister Ilir Meta was the 60th Government of the Republic of Albania which was officially mandated by President Rexhep Meidani on 7 September 2001. After the 2001 election,the alliance led by the Socialist Party won the majority for the second time in a row and managed to create a post–electoral coalition of 86 seats in Parliament to form the new government.
The Thirty-first Legislature of Albania,officially known as the X Pluralist Legislature of Albania,is the legislature of Albania following the 2021 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Albanian Parliament. The party of the Prime Minister Edi Rama,PS,obtained an absolute majority of 74 deputies,becoming the first party to win three consecutive terms since the fall of communism in Albania.
The Twenty-sixth Legislature of Albania,officially known as the V Pluralist Legislature of Albania,was the legislature of Albania following the 2001 Albanian Parliamentary election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Albanian Parliament. The party of the Prime Minister Ilir Meta,PS,obtained majority of 83 deputies.
