Republican Party of Albania

Republican Party of Albania
Partia Republikane e Shqipërisë
LeaderFatmir Mediu
FounderSabri Godo
Founded10 January 1991[1]
HeadquartersTirana
IdeologyNational conservatism[2]
Political positionRight-wing[3]
European affiliationEuropean Conservatives and Reformists Party (global partner)[4]
ColoursBlue
Parliament[2]
2 / 140
Council Seats
34 / 1,613

The Republican Party of Albania (Albanian: Partia Republikane e Shqipërisë, PR or PRSH ) is a national-conservative[2] political party in Albania. It currently holds 3 of the 140 seats in the Parliament of Albania, in alliance with the Democratic Party of Albania.

History

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The party was founded on 10 January 1991 under the leadership of the writer Sabri Godo, who was also its first Chairman. The party was formed with the backing of the Italian Republican Party.[5] After the Democratic Party, it was the second party to be founded in Albania after the anti-communist revolution in the autumn of 1990.

In the 1992 elections the party received 2.9% of the national vote and won a single seat.[6] They joined a coalition with the Democratic Party, but had little influence on the policies being shaped. The 1996 elections saw the party almost double its share of the vote to 5.9%, winning three seats.[6] After the 1997 uprising, in which the center-right coalition was overthrown by socialist supporters, the party became an opposition party. In the 1997 elections the party was reduced to a single seat.[6]

Before the 2001 elections, the party joined the Union for Victory Coalition under the leadership of the Democratic Party, which won 46 seats. In the 2005 elections the party received 20% of the vote in the national voting for the proportional seats, putting it in first place. Although it won 11 proportional seats, it failed to win a single constituency seat,[7] resulting in the party only being the third largest in Parliament.[8] For the 2009 elections the party was part of the "Alliance for Changes" coalition. However, it was reduced to a single seat, after seeing its vote share fall to just 2.1% of the national total. In the 2011 local elections the party won a total of 67,039 votes throughout the country, twice the amount they had received in the 2009 Albanian parliamentary election.[9]

Election results

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Election Votes % Seats +/– Status
1991 27,393 1.47
0 / 250
 – Extraparliamentary
1992 52,477 2.89
1 / 140
 Increase1 Coalition government (until 1994)
1996 94,567 5.74
3 / 140
 Increase2 Coalition government
1997 31,573 2.41
1 / 155
 Decrease2 Opposition
2001 Part of BF
5 / 140
 Increase 4 Opposition
2005 272,746 19.96
11 / 140
 Increase6 Coalition government
2009 31,990 2.11
1 / 140
 Decrease10 Coalition government
2013 52,168 3.02
3 / 140
 Increase2 Opposition
2017 3,225 0.20
0 / 140
 Decrease 3 Extraparliamentary
2021 Part of PD–AN
3 / 140
 Increase3 Opposition

References

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  1. ^ Robert Elsie (2010) Historical Dictionary of Albania, Scarecrow Press, p384
  2. ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Albania". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  3. ^ "The Albanian Electoral Systems since 1990" (PDF). Albanian Elections Observatory Brief (1). 19 April 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Welcome to our new member parties". ACRE. 7 April 2017. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  5. ^ Alan John Day; Roger East; Richard Thomas (2002). A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-85743-063-9. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp139–142 ISBN 9783832956097
  7. ^ Republic of Albania: Legislative Elections of 3 July 2005 Adam Carr
  8. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p143
  9. ^ "Aleanca per Qytetarin", fiton me 70.890 vota Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine Koha Jonë
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