Albania

TIRANA, Albania The opposition Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) announced Sunday (July 5th) that it will hold an extraordinary national convention Tuesday to secure party support for a future coalition government with Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democratic Party (DP).

TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists charged yesterday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country’s lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week’s national election were tallied. 

TIRANA, Albania nearly a week after parliamentary elections, Albania’s governing Democratic Party began to assemble a coalition government on Saturday, even as the opposition Socialists decried the move as premature.

TIRANA, Albania’s opposition Socialists are threatening to hold street protests after election authorities declared Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s Democrats had won enough seats in last weekend’s election to form a government.

The Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI, announced on Saturday, that it had accepted a request from right-wing incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha, to join the ruling coalition after last Sunday’s poll. Speaking at a press conference in Tirana, the LSI head and former Socialist Prime Minister Ilir Meta said that …

TIRANA, Albania The Central Election Commission (CEC) decided on Thursday (July 2nd) to bring the last voting boxes from the Lezha and Fier regions and count the ballots live on national TV in Tirana. The final results are expected late Friday. Voting has been contested in Shkodra, Berat and Fier.

Albania’s former Deputy Transport Minister Nikolin Jaka, was found innocent by an an appeals court in Tirana on Wednesday, after formerly being convicted of illegally influencing a public tender. Jaka was charged in September 2007 with illegally fixing a series of tenders for road projects, and back then was sentenced …

The Union for Human Rights, PBDNJ, which represents the ethnic Greek minority in Albania, rejected on Thursday speculation that it will return to the governing coalition of Prime Minister Sali Berisha after Sunday’s parliamentary elections. “We will not change our position,” said in a press conference, the party boss Vangjel …

FOR months the opinion polls suggested that Albania’s election would be close. Most pundits said they were wrong, because respondents were giving unreliable answers. Now Albanian opinion polling has come of age. So close was the June 28th election that, four days later, the result was still unclear. Albania faces …

TIRANA – Albania’s opposition Socialist Party said on Thursday it was premature for any party to claim victory ahead of the final results of the country’s election the ruling Democratic Party has already claimed it has won. Prime Minister Sali Berisha said he would wait for the Central Election Commission …