Albanian Socialist Party
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Socialist Party of Albania
Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë |
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| Chairman | Edi Rama |
| Leader of the Parliamentary Group | Gramoz Ruçi |
| Founded | 12 June 1991 |
| Preceded by | Party of Labour of Albania |
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| Newspaper | Zëri i Popullit |
| Youth wing | Euro-Socialist Youth Forum (Albanian: Forumi i Rinisë Eurosocialiste të Shqipërisë (FRESSH)) or Socialist Youth/Young Socialists |
| Membership (2005) | 33,617 |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists (associate) |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Colours | Purple |
| Slogan |
Rilindje Renaissance |
| National Assembly |
66 / 140
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| Municipality |
34 / 61
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| Website | |
| http://www.ps.al/ | |
The Socialist Party of Albania (Albanian: Partia Socialiste e Shqipërisë, PS), is a social-democraticpolitical party in Albania; it gained power following the 2013 parliamentary election. The party seated 66 MPs in the 2009 Albanian parliament (out of a total of 140). It achieved power in 1997 after a political crisis and governmental realignment. In the 2001 parliamentary election the party secured 73 seats in the Parliament, which enabled it to form the Government. In the general election of 3 July 2005, the Socialist Party lost its majority and the Democratic Party of Albania (PD) formed the new government, having secured, with its allies, a majority of 81 seats.
The Socialist Party of Albania is an associate of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and a member of the Socialist International. Its official newspaper is Zëri i Popullit, which had been the organ of its predecessor, the Communist Party of Labour of Albania.
The party, formed in November 1941, is known under this name since 1991, when it survived in the wake of the dramatic changes that had taken place in Albania since 1989. The Communist Party of Labour of Albania (PPSh), the only ruling party since the end of World War II, was the most rigid Stalinist party in Europe under its founder and longtime leader, Enver Hoxha. However, Hoxha's successor, Ramiz Alia, was forced to introduce limited reforms in the late 1980s. Finally, on 11 December 1990, Alia announced that the PPSh had given up its monopoly of power.
The PPSh won the Constitutional Assembly elections of March 1991—the first free elections held in the country in almost 80 years. By this time, however, it was no longer a Marxist–Leninist party. At an extraordinary congress in June 1991, in its efforts to survive in the new system, the PPSh voted to change its name to PS.
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