Albanian PM admits defeat and resigns his post as head of DP!

Today, the historic leader of the Democratic Party and PM of Albania, finally admitted defeat in these general parliamentary elections 2013 and at the same time resigned his post as head of the party choosing to return to being a normal citizen with limited responsibilities.

Wow, that was a first. It seemed that this guy would never give up till death parted him. In the past he has pulled a lot of tricks to stay in power and thus continue his autocratic rule of the DP and of the Albanian people.

Let’s hope that this was final!

Other sources:

• Albanian premier concedes election defeat (Yahoo)
• Albania: Conservative Prime Minister Berisha concedes election defeat to rival Socialists (The Washington Post)
• New Albanian government unlikely to lead to much change (Deutche Welle)

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Elvis Plaku

Elvis Plaku was born and raised in Tirana and has lived in Albania his whole life. He has been blogging about Albanian culture, travel and everyday life since 2004 — one of the country's longest-running English-language blogs. By day he runs the web agency Sfida.PRO; here he writes as a local, sharing the Albania he actually knows.