Socialist Edi Rama voted in as Albania’s new PM

Power in Albania takes major step to democracy with peaceful transition to once opposition party

AFP

The Albanian parliament on Sunday approved the government of Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama who vowed to speed up Albania’s integration into the European Union and revive an ailing economy. A total of 82 lawmakers in the 140-seat parliament.

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Edi Rama (born 4 July 1964) is an Albanian politician, artist, writer, and the current Prime Minister of Albania since 2013. He has also been leader of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005. Rama served in the government as Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports from 1998 to 2000, and he was Mayor of Tirana from 2000 to 2011. He led a coalition of socialist and left-wing parties that won the June 2013 parliamentary election, defeating the conservative bloc of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.