TIRANA, Jan. 11 – Albania’s leading ethnic Greek minority organization, Omonia, held elections last weekend to choose their new leader, Leonidha Papa (Leonidas Pappas in Greek), 41, who replaces the former mayor of Himara, Vasil Bollano, in the post.
Papa, a civil engineer, won with 190 votes against his rival. That required two rounds of voting after the first was held in mid-December.
Papa said after the election that there are no losers, just winners, in an attempt to unify the organization members.
Omonia is a Greek social, political and cultural organization in Albania that promotes minority rights for the Greek minority in the south of the country. The organization was founded in 1991, after the authoritarian regime collapse, in the village of Dervican, by representatives of the Greek national minority.
