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Albania's prime minister looked set for a third term in power on Monday, as preliminary election results gave his Socialist Party a commanding lead.

Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks during an interview in Elbasan, Albania, on April 20, 2021, three days ahead of Albania’s general elections. – Albania holds general elections on April 25, 2021, with centre-left sitting Prime Minister Edi Rama of the Socialist Party running for a third mandate, and facing a challenge from a dozen parties united behind the main opposition Democratic Party.

An opposition alliance under the Democrat Party — whose leaders continued to claim victory on Monday — were on 39 percent and another party opposed to Rama was polling at 7 percent. But he warned that the early data needed to be treated with caution, final results not expected until Tuesday. But the tiny Balkans country of 2.8 million people remains one of Europe’s poorest, and NGOs regard it as one of the continent’s most corrupt.The European Union agreed to open formal membership talks last year in a country overwhelmingly in favour of joining, but no date has yet been set for the first meeting.

 

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