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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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