(11 May 2025)
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Surrel, near Tirana, Albania – 11 May 2025
1. Various of people voting
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Albanians cast ballots on Sunday as polls opened in a general election.
Prime Minister Edi Rama is seeking a fourth term as Albania’s prime minister after taking on his political nemesis in a boisterous campaign dominated by the country’s uphill effort to join the European Union.
Rama’s main challenger is Sali Berisha, a hoarse-voiced and energetic 80-year-old survivor of Albania’s tumultuous politics.
Berisha, a former president and prime minister, has led the conservative Democratic Party of Albania since its founding in 1990, when student protests marked the end of communist isolation.
The country of 2.8 million people, with 3.7 million eligible voters including the diaspora casting ballots for the first time ever by mail, will elect 140 lawmakers to four-year terms, choosing from 2,046 candidates representing 11 political groupings, including three coalitions.
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