Fatos Nano
| Fatos Nano | |
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| 24th Prime Minister of Albania | |
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In office 29 July 2002 – 1 September 2005 |
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| President | Alfred Moisiu |
| Preceded by | Pandeli Majko |
| Succeeded by | Sali Berisha |
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In office 25 July 1997 – 28 September 1998 |
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| President | Rexhep Meidani |
| Preceded by | Bashkim Fino |
| Succeeded by | Pandeli Majko |
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In office 22 February 1991 – 4 June 1991 |
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| President | Ramiz Alia |
| Preceded by | Adil Çarçani |
| Succeeded by | Ylli Bufi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 September 1952 Tirana, Albania |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Rexhina Nano (1976–2001) Xhoana Nano (2002–present) |
| Children | Sokol Edlira Klajdi (step-son) |
| Alma mater | University of Tirana |
| Religion | Albanian Orthodox |
| Website | Official facebook |
Fatos Thanas Nano 
listen (born 16 September 1952) is an Albanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Albania several times; he was the first leader and founder of the Socialist Party of Albania and a member of the Albanian Parliament from 1991 to 1996 and 1997 to 2009. He reformed the Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist ideology of the Labor Party of Albania into social democracy for its successor, the Socialist Party. During his leadership, the Socialist Party, as a result of reforms, joined the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists. Nano was a candidate in the 2007 presidential election but did not win. He again tried in the 2012 presidential election, but he did not even qualify as a candidate, because the leaders of parties in Parliament obstructed their respective MPs to elect him as candidate in the elections.
Fatos Nano was born in Tirana to Thanas Nano, a former director of Albanian Radio Television, and Maria Nano (née Shuteriqi), a government official. He was the only male child among female siblings in the family. He grew up in Hoxha Tahsim Street in East Tirana, attended and graduated from “Sami Frasheri” High School, reserved for the children of the nomenklatura. In the early years of adolescence, Nano was eager to learn foreign languages and used to play the guitar. In his second year of high school, he founded a rock group of which he was the lead singer; they played the music of the Beatles, strictly forbidden to the general public at the time. He graduated in Political Economy from the University of Tirana in 1974. After graduation in 1978, Nano worked in the management of the metallurgical mills of Elbasan until 1981. From 1981 until 1984, Nano served as an economist at Priska's Agricultural Farm in Tirana. In 1984, he was appointed as a researcher of socio-economic problems and reforms of market economies of Eastern Bloc countries in the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies in Tirana, where he worked until 1990. When Fatos Nano was working in the Marxist-Leninist Institute, he was under the observation of Nexhmije Hoxha, Enver Hoxha’s wife. He was singled out for special favor. Nexhmije Hoxha reportedly followed his career and helped him at strategic points to move from job to job.
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