Petrit Vasili | |
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Minister of Justice | |
In office 3 February 2017 –22 May 2017 | |
Prime Minister | Edi Rama |
Preceded by | Ylli Manjani |
Succeeded by | Gazment Bardhi |
Minister of Health | |
In office 16 September 2009 –27 June 2012 | |
Prime Minister | Sali Berisha |
Preceded by | Anila Godo |
Succeeded by | Vangjel Tavo |
Member of Parliament | |
In office 9 September 2013 –8 July 2025 | |
Chairman of the Socialist Movement for Integration | |
In office 5 May 2017 –5 July 2017 | |
Preceded by | Ilir Meta |
Succeeded by | Monika Kryemadhi |
Personal details | |
Born | Tirana,Albania | 4 June 1958
Political party | Socialist Movement for Integration |
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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. [1]
Vasili was born on 4 June 1958 in Tirana. Vasili graduated from the University of Tirana in medicine and completed a postgraduate specialization in Tirana (1984 –1985) and a doctorate at the Istituto Superiore di Sanitàin Rome (1988 –1991).
Vasili together with Ilir Meta would go on to create LSI on 6 September 2004. Following the disagreements between Ilir Meta and Fatos Nano. [2] Vasili would become Deputy chair of LSI.
Following the 2009 parliamentary elections the LSI would form a coalition with the PD,where he became the Minister of Health. [3]
As a result of the 2013 parliamentary elections,The LSI prior would withdraw from the coalition between PD-LSI and would join the PS coalition. Where he was elected as a member of the Assembly,In which he represented the Socialist Integration Movement;he held this mandate from September 30,2013 to April 23,2017.
He held another ministerial position as the head of the Ministry of Justice from 3 February to 22 May 2017.
On 5 May 2017,he replaced Ilir Meta as the chairman of the Socialist Integration Movement due to Meta's Presidential Candidacy. He held the position until 5 July,when he resigned;his successor was Monika Kryemadhi Ilir Meta's wife. [4]
Today Vasili is a critic of Edi Rama and his government. He has argued that Edi Rama has made Albania a autocratic regime. [5]