Economists will be numerous among the members of the new parliament. The new parliament that came out of the elections of the 28th of June 2009 will count 25 economists among its 140 members. Economists are the second largest category of members of parliament after lawyers, which come first as a category and who will occupy 35 seats. The third largest category is that of engineers, which will make up 15 members of parliament.
Business people will also be widely represented in the new assembly, as they will occupy 14 seats and will be the fourth largest group. With business and economy standing largely as the background of the majority of deputies, concerns and understanding of these fields are expected to be handled with priority during their mandate. Taken together, economists and businessmen will represent 39 seats out of the 140 that make up the Albanian parliament. That would mean roughly 27 to 28 % of the seats and would compare to the lawyer MP-s that will represent 25 % of the seats.
The most compact group is however that of the lawyers with 35 members. They will be a group of “legalists”. From lawyers they will become lawmakers.
The professional categories that follow are physicians with 10 MP-s and journalists with 7 MP-s. The top politicians of the new PD-LSI coalition that is being formed, Sali Berisha (Democratic Party, PD) and Ilir Meta (Socialist Movement for integration, LSI), have degrees in medicine and economics respectively. They were both elected members of the future parliament in the district of Tirana.
A list of MP-s featured by their background or activity was published by the Albanian-language daily newspaper Tirana Observer on the 7th of June 2009.The newspaper counts future members of parliament by profession and is indifferent to their political leanings. In all, 20 professional categories are charted. But the picture is still incomplete, as only 137 members of the future parliament are accounted for. The three remaining seats which have not entered the classification were either discussed by political forces or their supposed occupants were at the time lacking info on their professional background.
In an assembly which counts 140 seats and where 20 trades are represented, 6 professional categories represent the largest number of Deputies. The 14 other trade groups list less than 5 MP-s. Out of these fourteen, 6 groups count only one representative.
The professional classification of the future parliament was completed by the newspaper at a time when the final results of the elections had not yet been validated by the Central Commission for Elections. The future might show a slight difference in its professional composition. The full list of trades will be compatible with the final results of the elections. The professional composition of the parliament is expected to change again with the formation of the new executive power. At that time some of the elected members will leave their elected seat as legislators and take a position in the government.
The composition of the parliament will be final only after the formation of the future governing body. The seats unoccupied by leading politicians will be given runners-up from the local lists of their parties. The party lists were divided by electoral districts and only members of the same electoral list will be able to take the place of the deputy that will join the government.
1 Lawyers 35
2 Economists 25
3 Engineers 15
4 Businessmen 14
5 Physicians 10
6 Journalists 7
7 Linguists 4
8 Diplomats 4
9 Political Scientists 4
10 Military men 3
11 Biologists 3
12 Actors 3
13 Sociologists 2
14 Veterinarians 2
15 Sportsmen 1
16 Graduated in Physics 1
17 Historians 1
18 Mathematicians 1
19 Architects 1
20 Agronomists 1
Total MPs 137
