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The Central Committee of the communist Party of Labour of Albania allowed political pluralism on 11 December and the largest opposition party, the Democratic Party, was founded the next day. [2] March 1991 elections left the Party of Labour in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a "stability government" that ...
Communist Albania, officially the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 until 1976, then as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqipërisë) from 1976 to 1991, and as the Republic of Albania from 1991 to 1992, was the communist state in Albania from 1946 to 1991.
Albania joined NATO along with Croatia in April 2009, becoming the organization's 27th and 28th members. [7] Albania also submitted the official application for membership into the European Union on April 28. [8] In July Sali Berisha's centre-right Democratic Party won the 2009 parliamentary elections by a narrow margin.
After 10 years in opposition, the center-right Democratic Party is weakened and fractured, with the main grouping led by Berisha, the longest-serving politician in post-communist Albania.
Albania's first post-communist prime minister, Fatos Nano, was in a hospital and fighting for his life, the current prime minister’s office said Thursday. Nano, 70, has been in intensive care at ...
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Wiretaps part of an investigation still on process by the prosecution office in Albania, were released by Bild on June, where government and socialist party officials were taped dealing with vote buying and forcing people to vote for the Socialist Party in the elections of Dibra.
The Albanian–Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the People's Republic of Albania, which occurred in the 1956–1961 period as a result of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's rapprochement with Yugoslavia along with his "Secret Speech" and subsequent de-Stalinization, including efforts to extend these policies into ...