Ilir Meta

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Ilir Meta (2014)

Ilir Rexhep Meta (born March 24, 1969 in Çorovoda ) is an Albanian politician and the seventh President of the country since July 24, 2017 .

Previously, Ilir Meta already held various state and party posts. He is the founder of the Socialist Movement for Integration (LSI) and was its chairman from the founding of the party until 2017. On April 28, 2017 he was elected as the successor to Bujar Nishani as the new president and had to resign from this political post in advance. Between 2013 and 2017 he was President of Parliament and between 1999 and 2002 Prime Minister of Albania , the youngest in Albania's history to be elected to this office.

Life

Ilir Meta studied economic policy at the University of Tirana . In 1990/91 he was involved in the student riots that brought about the fall of the communist system . In 1992 Meta was elected to the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë as the representative of the Socialist Party of Albania . In this party he held various offices in the following years.

On November 4, 1999, Ilir Meta was confirmed as Prime Minister by parliament . He held this position until 2002. In 2003 he was Albania's Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

In 2004 he broke with the Socialist Party over disagreements with the Fatos Nano bloc . He founded a new, social democratically oriented party, the Socialist Movement for Integration ( Albanian  Lëvizja Socialiste për Integrim , acronym: LSI), which he chaired until 2017. In 2009 he was again Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Berisha II cabinet . In September 2010 he handed over the Foreign Ministry to Edmond Haxhinasto (LSI) and became Minister for Economy, Trade and Energy in order to spend less time abroad and to be able to focus more on the development of the party.

On January 14, 2011, Meta also resigned from his post as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs, Trade and Energy. The reason he cited was to enable the public prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation, since elected officials in Albania have political immunity . Previously, a video was published on Top Channel's Fiks Fare show that shows him trying to manipulate a public tender for the construction of a hydropower plant. A year later, on January 16, 2012, the Supreme Court acquitted him of the allegation of corruption in the absence of evidence, as the secretly recorded video was rejected as evidence.

On October 21, 2012, Ilir Meta was confirmed as party leader of the LSI with 79% of the vote. His only opposing candidate, General Secretary Luan Rama , received 21%.

In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Albania in 2013 , Ilir Meta and his party left the coalition with the Democrats that had been formed since 2009 in order to switch to the Socialists. In the elections in June, the Socialists under Edi Rama, together with the LSI, achieved a clear majority. On September 10, 2013, the Albanian parliament elected Ilir Meta as President of Parliament with 91 votes to 45, with one abstention. Three of the 140 MPs were not present. Meta thus also received votes from the new opposition, the Democrats, which is unusual for Albania.

When Ilir Meta was elected President on April 28, 2017 , this was done without the support of the opposition. The Democrats have been boycotting parliamentary work since February 2017. Three ballots without candidates, which were seen as an invitation to the opposition to return to parliament, were unsuccessful. In the fourth ballot, Ilir Meta was the only candidate and received 87 out of 89 votes.

Private

Ilir Rexhep Meta is married to Monika Kryemadhi , who succeeded the LSI as party leader . For this reason, she did not take on the role of " First Lady " when her husband was inaugurated . Meta was instead accompanied by his older daughter, Bora.

The two have two other children, Besar and Era.

Web links

Commons : Ilir Meta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albanian parliament approves cabinet changes. In: SETimes.com. September 17, 2010, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved September 19, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ Corruption: Albania's Deputy Prime Minister resigns. In: ORF . January 14, 2011, accessed January 14, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Albanian court acquitted former prime ministers. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung online. January 16, 2012, accessed January 17, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Vilma Filaj-Ballvora: “Culture of Impunity” in Albania. In: Deutsche Welle. January 21, 2012, accessed January 30, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Ilir Meta rikonfirmohet si kreu i LSI-SE. Top Channel , October 21, 2012, accessed October 22, 2012 (Albanian).
  6. ^ Parliamentary elections in Albania: victory of the socialists. Die Tageszeitung , June 25, 2013, accessed on September 13, 2017 .
  7. ^ Ilir Meta President i Republikës. (No longer available online.) In: Top Channel . April 28, 2017, archived from the original on April 28, 2017 ; accessed on April 28, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / top-channel.tv
  8. ↑ Ilir Meta is the new President of Albania. In: Deutsche Welle . April 29, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ilir Meta sot merr funksionin president i Shqipërisë . In: IDIVIDI . July 25, 2017 ( com.mk [accessed July 26, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Newly elected Albanian President Ilir Meta poses with his son… In: Getty Images. July 24, 2017, accessed July 26, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Meta, Ilir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meta, Ilir Rexhep (full name); Metaj, Ilir (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Çorovoda