Albania’s parliament on Saturday chose a top military authority as the country’s new president after no up-and-comers were designated in three rounds of voting. The post was won after the 140-seat Parliament cast a ballot of 78 in favor, four against and one abstained. The overseeing left-wing Socialist Party designated and decided in favor of Begaj, 55, in the wake of neglecting to arrive at a split the difference with the resistance on a contender to supplant President Ilir Meta, and no free up-and-comer was selected.
A large portion of the resistance boycotted the democratic Begaj is post-socialist Albania’s eighth president and the third from the tactical position. The five-year administration plays a generally stately part, and the picked up-and-comer is supposed to remain above hardliner divisions. The president holds a little power over the legal executive and the military and is restricted to two terms.
According to Socialist Party leader and Prime Minister Edi Rama, no applicants from the administrative majority were considered.”We gave Albania a typical president, an unquestionable character in his honesty, mankind, and obligation to the nation and its kin,” Rama said.
In a declaration from the president, who was on a visit Saturday to Turkey, Begaj was set free from his military post. Meta, who conflicted routinely with public authorities, saluted the new president. A handover function has been arranged for July 24. Begaj has been the military’s head of staff since July 2020. He held a few armed force posts, remembering ones for public and military clinics, and prepared in the U.S. for essential clinical initiatives and safeguarding the executives.
The European Union, the United States, and other Western nations congratulated Begaj on his new post.
