Edi Rama is an Albanian politician,painter,writer,former pedagogue,publicist and former basketball player,who has served as the 33rd and current Prime Minister of Albania since 2013 and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005.
Fatos 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 1996 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.
The Democratic Party of Albania is a conservative,center-right to right-wing political party in Albania. Rilindja Demokratike is the party's official newspaper. Since 2013,they have been the largest opposition party in Albania,with Lulzim Basha as party chairman.
Azem Shpend Hajdari was the leader of the student movement in 1990–1991 that led to the fall of communism in Albania. He then became a politician of the Democratic Party of Albania (DP). He symbolizes the start of the democratic era in Albania. He was a member of the Albanian parliament and the Chairman of the Defence Parliamentary Commission. He was assassinated in Tirana on September 12,1998.
Teodor Keko (1958–2002) was an Albanian writer,journalist,and politician.
Radio Televizioni Shqiptar is an Albanian public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1938,it operates several radio and television channels,over a domestic transmitter network as well as satellite. The international television service via satellite RTSH Sat was launched in 1993 and is aimed at Albanian-speaking communities in Kosovo,Serbia,North Macedonia,Montenegro,and northern Greece,plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe. RTSH is funded by a combination of commercial advertising,an annual licence fee of US$10.00 and grant-in-aid from the Albanian government.
Arben Minga was an Albanian professional footballer,who played as a striker and later in his final years as a centre-back.
Gazmend Oketa is an Albanian politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Albania,as well as Minister of Defence.
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 Albanian inexperience with capitalism led to the proliferation of pyramid schemes –which were not banned due to the corruption of the government. 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.
Albania has recognized Israel as a state since April 19,1949. Diplomatic relations between the countries were established on August 19,1991. Albania has an embassy in Tel Aviv,Israel,and Israel has an embassy in Tirana,Albania.
Arben Malaj has been Minister of Finance and Economy in the Republic of Albania different times from 1997 until 2005. He is known for transforming the Albanian economy into a European profile,after the hard social-economic crisis that this country passed during the year 1997. He served as a Member of the Albanian Parliament from 1997 to 2013 chairing the Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance.
Damian Gjiknuri is an Albanian politician. He is Minister of Energy and Industry and a member of the Albanian parliament for the Socialist Party,chosen in the District of Elbasan. He is member of Commission of Legal Affairs at the Parliament.
Arben Ristani is the former head of the Central Election Commission and currently a member of Democratic Party of Albania.
Bujar Nishani is an Albanian politician. He served as President of Albania from 24 July 2012 to 24 July 2017. Nishani is the youngest person to have been chosen as president of Albania,aged 47 at the time of his swearing in.
Gent Hysen Strazimiri was a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Democratic Party of Albania (DP). He was Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs from 2007 to 2009. Strazimiri is also member of the committee on Legal Affairs,Public Administration and Human Rights and Committee on Education and Public Information.
Arben Ahmetaj is an Albanian politician who currently is serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Albania since 18 September 2021. Since 2013 previously has served in several important departments such as:Minister of Economic Development,Minister of Finance,as well as Minister of State for Reconstruction after the devastating earthquake in 2019 that occurred in the central area of the country.
Ben Blushi is an Albanian politician,writer and journalist.
Mimi Kodheli is an Albanian economist and politician who served as Minister of Defense of Albania in the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama. She was the first woman to be appointed to the post.
Independent Albania was a parliamentary state declared in Vlorëon 28 November 1912. Its assembly was constituted on the same day while its government and senate were established on 4 December 1912.
Olta Xhaçka is an Albanian politician and Socialist Party member of Parliament. She has been the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs since January 2021. 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.
