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TIRANA, Sept 29 – Vangjel Dule, the ethnic Greek leader of Albania’s Human Rights Union Party and a lawmaker, was elected as Deputy Speaker of Parliament, an unprecedented move in post-communist Albania.
Dule, leader of the largely ethnic Greek political party, was voted in with 104 lawmakers vote. There were four votes against, and six MPs abstained. The other deputy speaker comes from the main opposition Democratic Party. Dule is a member of the Socialist-led government. Governments in the last two decades have always had ministers from Albania’s Greek minority, in a sign of a soft stance on the main minorityin the country, but this is the highest official position granted so far in parliament.
