Sali Ram Berisha is an Albanian cardiologist and conservative politician who served as the president of Albania from 1992 to 1997 and as the 32nd prime minister of Albania from 2005 to 2013. Berisha has served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania since 2022. He has previously held the position of Chairman from 1990 to 1992 and 1997 to 2013. He is the leader of opposition in Albania.
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.
Regular elections in Albania are mandated by the Constitution and legislation enacted by Parliament. The Parliament (Kuvendi) has 140 members elected for four-year terms. The electoral system is open list proportional representation. There are 12 multi-member constituencies corresponding to the country's 12 administrative regions. Within any constituency,parties must meet a threshold of 3 percent of votes,and pre-election coalitions must meet a threshold of 5 percent of votes.
Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician who served as President of Albania from 2017 to 2022.
The Macedonian Alliance for European Integration (Macedonian Party) (Albanian:Aleanca Maqedonase për Integrimin Europian;Macedonian:МакедонскаАлијансазаЕвропскаИнтеграција) is a political party of the ethnic Macedonians in Albania. It was established on 30 October 2004 under the name Macedonian Alliance for European Integration and was registered as a political party on 8 June 2005. The first president of the party was Edmond Temelko,who was the mayor of the Pustec Municipality from 2007 until 2019. It first succeeded in electing an ethnic Macedonian to parliament in 2019,Vasil Sterjovski. Sterjovski himself was elected as the president of the party in September 2019. The party does not support the claims that a Bulgarian minority exists in Albania.
Jozefina Topalli is an Albanian politician who formerly served as the Chairwoman of the Parliament of Albania from 2 September 2005 until 9 September 2013. She held the title of vice president of the Democratic Party of Albania. Topalli is married and has two children.
Lulzim Basha is an Albanian lawyer and politician who served as chairman of the Democratic Party of Albania and as the Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2022 and again from 2023 until 2024.
The 2011 Albanian opposition demonstrations were a series of anti-government protests in cities around Albania following 18 months of political conflict over alleged electoral fraud by the opposition. A video surfaced which portrayed the deputy prime minister arranging a corrupt deal with the minister of economy. The public outcry over the video resulted in the resignation of the deputy prime minister,Ilir Meta. A demonstration was called by parliamentary opposition parties,which include the Socialist Party and the Unity for Human Rights Party. These were called on 21 January in order to protest the alleged corruption of the Albanian government as well as widespread unemployment and poverty in the country.
Edi Paloka is an Albanian Democratic Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Durrës. He was first elected MP in the 2001 general election and then for three other legislatures successively as a member of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party.
Eduard Halimi was Albania's Minister of Justice from 2011 until 2013.
Blendi Klosi is an Albanian Socialist Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Berat. On 13 September 2017,Klosi was appointed as Minister of Tourism and Environment by the 2nd Rama government.
Fatmir Xhafaj is an Albanian politician,chair of the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the Judicial System Reform of the Parliament of Albania. He served as the Albanian Minister of Interior Affairs from 2017 to 2018.
Jorida Tabaku is an Albanian liberal politician with the Democratic Party of Albania. During the Tirana mayoral leadership of former DP leader Lulzim Basha,she served as deputy-mayor in the years 2011–2015.
Benito Owusu Bio is a land economist and Ghanaian politician of the Republic of Ghana. He is the Member of Parliament representing Atwima-Nwabiagya constituency of the Ashanti Region of Ghana in the 4th,5th,6th,7th and the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He is a member of the New Patriotic Party.
Olta Xhaçka is an Albanian politician and Socialist Party member of Parliament. She served as the minister of Europe and foreign affairs from January 2021 to September 2023. She served as Albanian minister of social welfare and youth between March 2017 to August 2017 and as minister of defense from September 2017 to December 2020.
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.
Dirk Jan Stubbe is a South African politician who served as a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance from September 2010 to May 2019 and again from September 2020 until May 2024. Prior to his tenure in the National Assembly,Stubbe was a Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Belind Këlliçi is an Albanian conservative politician. He has been currently appointed by the Democratic Party of Albania as the Political Leader of Tirana County for the upcoming elections in 2025. He was elected Member of Parliament for Tirana County in April 2021 general elections. He was the official candidate of the Democratic Party to run for Mayor of Tirana in the local elections of 2023,after winning in the Democratic Party Primaries.
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 Thirtieth Legislature of Albania,officially known as the IX Pluralist Legislature of Albania,is the legislature of Albania following the 2017 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,alongside its ally,the Social Democratic Party (PSD),which secured 1 seat and Party for Justice,Integration and Unity (PDIU) 3 seats.
