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ARTICLE · 28 JULY 1997

New President Elected

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United KingdomGovernment, Public Sector
Parliament on 24 July elected Socialist Party (SP) secretary-general Rexhep Mejdani as president to replace Sali Berisha, who resigned on 23 July following his Democratic Party (DP)'s overwhelming defeat at general elections held on 29 June and 6 July.

Mejdani has accepted the resignation of interim Prime Minister Bashkim Fino and asked SP chairman Fatos Nano to form a new government. This will be overwhelmingly SP-dominated: the SP and its political allies won 118 seats in the 155-member parliament, while the DP won only 24.

Political implications

Political uncertainty caused by the collapse of law and order in Albania earlier in 1997 has eased since the elections, and Berisha's long-delayed departure removes another major source of political tensions. The new government will have a clear mandate to try to return the country to normality and, with a two-thirds parliamentary majority, the SP and its allies can push through vital legislation. The fact that an outburst of

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