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From kingmaker to peacemaker? By Albert Rakipi On the 22nd of July last year, at 00.35 in the morning, the 140 members of the parliament in Albania together with a large entourage of diplomats watching from the upper lodges, sleepy eyed journalists and bodyguards and even a few waiters burst into a frenetic applause and loud acclamations. The reason: the justice reform had just been approved with 140 votes, unanimously. More than ever, in the 25-year-old history of democracy in Albania, the parliament resembled extremely much to the pseudo-parliament of the dictatorship time, where a single party used to gain…
