The Republican Party of Albania (, PR or PRSH ) is a national-conservative 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

The party was founded on 10 January 1991 under the leadership of the writer

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, who was also its first Chairman. The party was formed with the backing of the Italian Republican Party. After the Democratic Party, it was the second party to be founded in Albania after the anti-communist revolution in the autumn of 1990. The Republicans chose the American

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as their political role model. They arranged themselves as right of center on the political spectrum, slightly more

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than the Democratic Party of Albania. In the 1992 elections the party received 2.9% of the national vote and won a single seat.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp139–142 They joined a coalition with the Democratic Party, but had little influence on the policies being shaped. The

1996 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1996. * 1995–1996 Azerbaijani parliamentary election * 1996 Beninese presidential election * 1996 Comorian presidential election * 1996 New Zealand general election * 1996 Nicaraguan general electio ...

saw the party almost double its share of the vote to 5.9%, winning three seats. After the 1997 uprising, in which the centre-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. Before the

2001 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2001. Africa * 2001 Beninese presidential election * 2001 Cape Verdean parliamentary election * 2001 Cape Verdean presidential election * 2001 Chadian presidential election * 2001 Gabonese legislat ...

, 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, resulting in the party only being the third largest in Parliament.Nohlen & Stöver, p143 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 Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 28 June 2009. No alliance achieved 71 deputies on its own needed to form a parliamentary majority. A coalition government was formed by the Democratic Party and Socialist Movement for Integration. E ...

."Aleanca per Qytetarin", fiton me 70.890 vota
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Ideology

The Republican Party of Albania has adhered to the agenda of the American

and therefore its ideology is closely based on conservative, free market and many other right-wing policies. Although its policies are considered to be national conservative it also has several minor factions such as social conservatism and populism which have almost disappeared under the leadership of

Fatmir Mediu Fatmir Mediu (born 21 January 1967, in Durrës) is an Albanian conservative politician. He is the current Chairman of the Republican Party of Albania, and served as Minister of Defence from September 2005 to March 2008, and Minister of Enviro ...

, which has seen more right-wing policies such as national conservatism emerge, as well as several pro-EU and pro-NATO policies. Though the party was founded as a conservative, Republican and generally anti-Communist and anti-Monarchist party, which wanted reforms to speed up so democracy could be put in place more quickly, and founded as an alternative to the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party, it has usually been aligned with the centre-right Democratic Party because it was bitterly opposed to the Socialists.

Election results

References

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