Partia Socialdemokrate e Shqipërisë
| Partia Socialdemokrate e Shqipërisë | |
|---|---|
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| Party leader | Ëngjëll Bejtaj |
| founding | March 1991 |
| Place of foundation | Tirana |
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| Alignment | social democratic |
| Colours) | red and black |
| Parliament seats |
1/140 |
| International connections | Socialist International (observer status) |
The Partia Socialdemokrate e Shqipërisë ( Albanian for "Social Democratic Party of Albania"; acronym: PSDSh ), or Partia Socialdemokrate (acronym: PSD ) for short , is a small social democratic party in Albania . She has observer status with the Socialist International . From the founding of the party in 1991 to 2019, Skënder Gjinushi was chairman . In the 2017 parliamentary elections , she achieved 0.95% of the vote and after a long time she can again send a representative to the Kuvendi i Shqipërisë , the Albanian parliament.
history
The Partia Socialdemokrate was founded in March 1991, shortly after the communist dictatorship in Albania was overthrown at the turn of the year 1990/91 and the one-party system was abolished. In April 1991 the trained mathematician Skënder Gjinushi was elected to the party chairmanship. Gjinushi was not an unknown politician in Albania at the time; between 1987 and 1991 he had headed the Ministry of Education under Prime Minister Ramiz Alia , the last communist dictator in Albania.
In the first democratic and free parliamentary elections in Albania in 1992, the PSD won seven out of 140 parliamentary seats. In the next elections in 1996 she did not take part, while a year later she was able to take nine of the 155 seats in parliament after the lottery uprising .
In the following elections to the Albanian parliament, the PSD could no longer cling to its initial success. The 2005 elections are an exception, when the PSD received seven out of 140 seats. Throughout its existence, the Partia Socialdemokrat has worked closely with the Socialist Party and has formed coalitions with it . In the parliamentary elections in 2009 , the PSD won 1.76% of the vote. However, the result was not enough for a seat in parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2013 it only achieved 0.59% of the vote and again no parliamentary seat. Be the elections of 2017 was able to win a seat the party.
When Skënder Gjinushi was to become chairman of the Albanian Academy of Sciences in 2019 , he handed over the party chairmanship to Ëngjëll Bejtaj.
All election results since 1992 are summarized in the table below:
| General election | Votes received | Percentage nationwide |
Parliament seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 73,820 | 4% | 7th |
| 1996 |
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| 1997 | 245.181 | 18.7% | 9 |
| 2001 | 48,911 | 3.7% | 4th |
| 2005 | 174.103 | 12.7% | 7th |
| 2009 | 26,700 | 1.76% | 0 |
| 2013 | 10,220 | 0.59% | 0 |
| 2017 | 14,985 | 0.95% | 1 |
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Paul G. Lewis: Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe . Routledge, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-20182-7 , pp. 53 ( online version [accessed April 8, 2013]).
- ↑ About us: Member Parties of the Socialist International. Socialistinternational.org, archived from the original on May 3, 2013 ; accessed on April 8, 2013 .
- ^ Politicians in Albania. Bjørn Andersen, accessed April 8, 2013 (Danish).
- ↑ Dieter Nohlen, Philip Stöver: Elections in Europe: A data handbook . 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 , pp. 140-142 .
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Rezultati përfundimtar i zgjedhjeve në rang vendi )
- ↑ Gjinushi dorëhiqet nga PSD-ja, zëvendësohet në krye të partisë nga Ëngjëll Bejtaj. In: A2 News. June 7, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020 (Albanian).
