Local elections were held in

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

on 21 June 2015.Local government elections in Albania to take place on June 21, 2015
Independent Balkan News Agency, 15 December 2014 Voters elected mayors,

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counci ...

members, municipal unit mayors and municipal unit members. The

Central Election Commission of Albania The Central Election Commission ( sq, Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve), commonly abbreviated in Albanian as KQZ, is a permanent, non-independent partisan statutory agency responsible for conducting parliamentary and local elections in the Republ ...

was responsible for administrating the elections. These were the first local elections in Albania since substantial administrative reforms legislated in 2014 reduced the number of municipalities in the country to 61. The

Socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

party won the elections.

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Central Elections Commissions
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