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albania**

H.E. Klement Zguri, CEC

part i part ii
CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Country Name LEGISLATURE
ALBANIA
1. Structure of National Legislature
2. Official Name Unicameral
Republic of Albania
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
3. Government Parliament of Albania
Parliamentary Republic
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
4. Head of the Government nominated
Prime Minister – Edi Rama 140 members of the KuvendiiShqipërisë (Parlia-

5. Head of the State ment of Albania) are elected through closed-list
President – Ilir Meta proportional representation system

6. Capital 4. Popular House
Tirana (Tirane) Kuvendii Shqipërisë

7. Currency 5. Type of Electoral System
Albanian lek Proportional Representation
8. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) part iii
Albanian 82.6%, Greek 0.9%, other 1% (including
Vlach, Romani, Macedonian, Montenegrin, and ELECtorAL sYstEM
Egyptian), unspecified 15.5% (2011 est.)

9. Date of Independence and from which Country (A) ELECTION MANAGEMENT BODy
28 November 1912 from the Ottoman Empire
1. Name of the EMB(S)
10. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution Komisioni Qendror i Zgjedhjeve (KQZ) Central
28 November 1998 Election Commission
11. Language (s) 2. Website Address
Albanian 98.8% (official - derived from Tosk di- http://cec.org.al/
alect), Greek 0.5%, other 0.6% (including Mace-
donian, Romani, Vlach, Turkish, Italian, and Ser- 3. Nature of EMB
bo-Croatian), unspecified 0.1% (2011 est.) Independent
12. Literacy Levels 4. No. of Members in EMB
97.6% (2015 est.) Male: 98.4% Female: 96.9% 7

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