Another Victory for Democracy -- Albania

Former president Sali Berisha's Democratic Party on Monday seemed set to win Albania's parliamentary elections but, whatever the final outcome, some analysts say that the real winner is democracy in Albania. "An unexpected success," Martin Prochazka, an expert on Albanian issues at the Graz-based Centre for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures, told Adnkronos International (AKI) in an interview. The elections, the sixth since the fall of the country's isolationist Communist regime in 1991, are "the most fair and regular to date" and represent a "fundamental step forward," for the Balkan nation, Prochhazka said.
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The Democratic Party's likely victory depends on two factors according to Prochazka - on the one hand voter dissatisfaction with the "extremely corrupt" seven year-long rule of the Socialist Party; and on the other the splits within the Socialist camp....

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