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Albania’s Democratic Party leadership up for grabs after humiliating election defeat

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TIRANA, June 28 – Albania’s Democratic Party chairman, Lulzim Basha, will face a full leadership race, after he took responsibility but decided not to quit after a humiliating defeat in the parliamentary elections last Sunday. Basha is facing tough odds, with a growing number of influential party members calling for his immediate resignation. Basha said he was “freezing his functions as party leader” and empowering party officials to organize a one-member-one-vote race for the DP chairmanship. “I don’t get to choose how much I have erred and where I have erred. Neither do the people who didn’t work a single…

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Story Highlights

  • Sali Berisha, the party’s historical leader who is widely seen to have picked Basha has his successor called on the party to stay united
  • Only Eduard Selami, a former chairman in the 1990s, has so far officially filed as a candidate for the chairmanship against Basha. Others, including Bregu and Topalli, could join the list, potentially giving Albania the first ever female opposition leader and prime minister candidate.

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