Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama secured a comfortable majority in Albania’s election, riding a wave of pro-EU sentiment to become the country’s longest-serving democratic leader.
The Socialist Party looks to have secured a commanding majority with around 82 seats — well beyond the 71 needed to govern alone in Albania’s 140-seat parliament.
Although Albania has a multi-party system, power has effectively alternated between two main forces — the Socialists and the center-right Democratic Party — since the fall of communism in the early 1990s.
The fact the Democrats had hired Chris LaCivita, a Republican campaign maestro who masterminded Donald Trump’s comeback win in the 2024 U.S. election, didn’t seem to rattle Rama.
He questioned the Democrats for believing that “just because someone worked for Trump, they carry some kind of magical Trump power by association … in any case, it was a comedy worth watching.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa will be traveling to Albania for the sixth edition of the summit — an initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron to bring together EU and non-EU countries for talks on security, economic cooperation and regional stability. Also present will be representatives of other countries hoping to join the EU, such as Ukraine and Georgia.
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