Maliq Bushati

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Bushati on a recording from 1940

Maliq Bej Bushati (born February 8, 1880 in Shkodra , Ottoman Empire , † February 15, 1946 ) was an Albanian civil servant and politician. In 1943 he was Prime Minister of Albania for three months as a member of the Albanian Fascist Party (AFP).

Maliq Bej Bushati came from the aristocratic Bushati family and went to the Rüschdije school in Shkodra. He studied at Robert College in Istanbul . From 1919 he published the Populli newspaper. He was a member of parliament from 1921 to 1923 and 1925 to 1937.

During the Second World War, Maliq Bej Bushati was Minister of the Interior from 1939 to 1941. Afterwards he was Prime Minister of Albania from February 13 to May 12, 1943 during the occupation by the Kingdom of Italy . Together with Lef Nosi and his father Anton Harapi, Maliq Bej Bushati was sentenced to death in a political trial by the Albanian communist government and executed by shooting in early 1946 .

Individual evidence

  1. "Bushati, Maliq Bey (February 8, 1880 - February 15, 1946)", in A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History , Robert Elsie, ed. (IBTauris, 2012) p. 60
  2. Bernd Jürgen Fischer: Albania at war, 1939–1945 . S. 141 ( google.nl [accessed on March 21, 2011]).
predecessor Office successor
Eqrem Libohova Prime Minister of Albania in
1943
Eqrem Libohova