Albania: Socialists win local elections

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, MAY 16 - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's Socialist Party won a landslide victory in the country's local elections. Only six small municipalities were taken over by the center-right opposition, four in the north and two in the south of the country. In Finiq, near the Greek border, the candidate of one of the political forces representing the country's Greek minorities was elected.

The rest of the country, 54 out of 61 municipalities, went to the Socialists, who managed to seize control of Shkodra, a city in the country's north and a historic right-wing stronghold, for the first time.

While approximately 15% of the ballots in Tirana have yet to be counted, the current Socialist mayor Erion Veliaj is leading with 54 percent, 20 percentage points ahead of his rival Belind Kelliçi from the coalition of the Democrats led by former Prime Minister Sali Berisha and the Party of Freedom led by former Head of State Ilir Meta. (ANSA).

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