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Is Albania’s new dominant-party system here to stay? 

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By ANDI BALLA The ruling Socialist Party scored a sweeping victory in Albania’s May 14, 2023 municipal elections. SP won 54 out of 61 municipalities, including every single large city. Socialist mayors will govern more than 94 percent of the country’s population, adding to the SP domination at the national level, where it has a majority of seats in parliament and runs the government for a decade.  The election results are another sign that the country is moving from three decades of a two-party system, which at times acted like a multi-party democracy, into the realm of a dominant-party system…

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