As there is no strong tradition of pre-electoral polling in Albania, there is no reliable way to predict the outcome of the upcoming elections. However, we can sketch out at least a baseline scenario in which all parties receive the same number of votes as during the parliamentary elections of 2013. This method is of course far
Last Friday, almost at the end of the legal deadline, Lulzim Basha published the list of candidates for Democratic deputies. The sealed list can be explained only by the names it contains, as well as the fact that in the past 27 years, this is the most drastic purge since the one taking place in 1992
Many years ago, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Bank of Investment (EBI), the World Bank, and the Albanian Power Corporation (KESh), then the state company for production and distribution of electric power, jointly contributed to the building of the oil power plant with capacity of 100MW in Narta, Vlora. The power
During an electoral campaign meeting today in Kashar, Prime Minister Edi Rama has warned the Democratic Party that the agreement between the PS and PD is off the table when the opposition doesn’t help with its votes to form the vetting institutions. Vetting is the fundamental reason that we made the agreement. I have only
Following the McAllister+ agreement, the Democratic Party (PD) has proposed 7 new technical ministers, 4 women and 3 men. The minister were proposed yesterday by PD leader Lulzim Basha during a meeting with Prime Minister Edi Rama, who accepted the proposals. Their names have been sent to President Bujar Nishani to be decreed this afternoon,
Ilir Meta is the man who has directly or indirectly determined the outcome of all political elections since 2005, through the maneuvers and sides that he has chosen, based on his interests or political animosities. In 2002, Ilir Meta broke away from PS after disagreements with Socialist leader Fatos Nano, against whom Ilir Meta had
The Socialist Party (PS) has today officially started its electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections of June 18. During its Electoral Congress in Durrës, Deputy Erion Braçe and Minister of Finance Arben Ahmetaj presented several of the PS’s campaign promises. Braçe claimed that the PS will improve employment: During this mandate 183,000 new jobs were
In March 2017, the Parliament approved the loan agreement between the Albanian government and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the reconstruction of the Tirana-Rinas-Durres railway. Albania will benefit €35.5 million for the reconstruction of the 34.5km long Tirana-Durres railroad, and construction of the Tirana-Rinas rail segment, 5km long. This funding will be
Synchronizing their announcement the last few days for “something big” that would shake the PD, and one day before the EU will respond to the position of the PD (as pro-government media report), Eduart Selami and Majlinda Bregu have publicly articulated what for a long time they have uselessly tried to sell as a position
The election of Ilir Meta as president reminds us yet again of Rama’s dictum “You haven’t seen anything yet,” which in this case could continue with “I will even make Meta your president.” The reactions of the public to yet another curiosity were expected. Videos with Meta slandering Rama and Rama slandering Meta have appeared on