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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama applauds to his supporters during a celebratory rally for his Socialist Party victory in the last parliamentary elections, in Tirana, Albania, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albania’s prime minister thanks voters for landslide win and pledges EU membership by 2030

Albania’s prime minister has thanked hundreds of thousands of voters who supported his Socialist Party in the last parliamentary elections, backing his pledge to take the country into the European Union in five years.

Albania's ruling Socialist party leader Edi Rama, center, and his wife Linda, left, leave a voting station during a general election where Rama is seeking a fourth term as Albania's prime minister in Tirana, Albania Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albanian preliminary polls results show a clear win for the ruling Socialists

Ballot boxes are checked following the end of the voting procedure in Albania's parliamentary election after a boisterous campaign dominated by the country's uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama's bid for a fourth term, in Tirana, Albania, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albanian preliminary election results show Socialists in the lead

Ballot boxes are checked following the end of the voting procedure in Albania's parliamentary election after a boisterous campaign dominated by the country's uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama's bid for a fourth term, in Tirana, Albania, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albanians vote in election after a campaign dominated by uphill efforts to join the EU

Chris LaCivita, who served as co-campaign manager of Donald Trump's successful 2024 presidential campaign, shakes hands with Sali Berisha, leader of Albania's main opposition center-right Democratic Party that he is consulting for the upcoming May 11 parliamentary election, in Tirana, Albania, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo)

Trump campaign architects are now training their sights on Albania’s upcoming election

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The Italian navy ship Libra approaches the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, file)

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A protester holds a banner during a rally against the leftwing Socialist Party government's decision to shut down TikTok, in Tirana, Albania, Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025. The banner reads: " You immigrated TikTok too". (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

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Albanian court decides that capital’s mayor should remain in custody during corruption investigation

An Albanian court orders the capital’s mayor into custody and accuses him of corruption

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds the 2024 year-end press conference, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy, Albania and UAE ink clean energy cooperation deal

Opposition leader Sali Berisha joins his supporters during an anti-government protest, after he was released from the house arrest, asking for a technocratic caretaker Cabinet, in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albania opposition activists rally on streets of Tirana to demand government steps aside

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Albanians abroad will vote for the first time in parliamentary elections set for May

FILE - Sali Berisha, the leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party, speaks in Tirana, Albania, on Dec. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda, File)

Albanian opposition leader facing corruption charges is released from house arrest

Opposition Supporters and riot police run out of a gas canister thrown by Albania's police during a protest, in Tirana , Albania , Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 over the arrests of their leader Sali Berisha and former President Ilir Meta in separate corruption cases, saying the charges are politically motivated. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albanian opposition supporters block the capital’s streets in an anti-government rally

Albania aims to join the European Union by 2030, prime minister tells expatriates in Greek city

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves as Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, welcomes him before their meeting in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hameraldi Agolli)

Turkey’s Erdogan inaugurates a Turkish-funded mosque in Albania’s capital

The Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama speaks to the United Nations General Assembly during Summit of the Future, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Premier says Albania will grant sovereignty to Bektashi Muslims in Tirana, similar to the Vatican

Lawmakers of the Democratic Party, left, look on as their colleagues of the ruling Socialist party vote in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Albania’s Parliament on Thursday approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international waters by Italy while their asylum applications are processed, despite protests from opposition lawmakers and human rights groups. (AP Photo/Armando Babani)

Albanian Parliament approves controversial deal to hold migrants for Italy

Supporters of Albanian opposition gather to protest in front of Government building in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Thousands of supporters of Albania's opposition on Tuesday held an anti-government protest accusing the Cabinet of corruption and also to commemorate the fall of the monument of the late communist dictator in 1991. (AP Photo / Armando Babani)

Opposition supporters in Albania protest alleged corruption in Cabinet

FILE - Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on migrant management centers during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Albania’s Constitutional Court on Monday Jan. 29, 2024 said a deal can go ahead with Italy under which thousands of migrants rescued at sea by Italian authorities would be sent to Albania while their. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP, File)

Albania’s Constitutional Court says migration deal with Italy can go ahead if approved

FILE - Sali Berisha, leader of the opposition Democratic Party, speaks to his supporters An Albanian court on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition Democratic Party and is being investigated for possible corruption. (AP Photo/Armando Babani, File)

Albania’s ex-Prime Minister Berisha put under house arrest while investigated for corruption

Desde la izquierda: Los técnicos de Italia Luciano Spalletti; de Albania Sylvinho; de Croacia Zlatko Dalic; y de España Luis de la Fuente posan con el trofeo del Campeonato Europeo 2024 tras el sorteo, el sábado 2 de diciembre de 2023, en Hamburgo. (AP Foto/Martin Meissner)

Albania gives citizenship to Brazilian coach Sylvinho who has led team to Euro 2024

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, centre welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right and Albania's Prime Minister Edy Rama, at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

The leaders of Italy, the UK and Albania meet in Rome to hold talks on migration

Lawmakers of Democratic Party light a flare inside the Parliament in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Lawmakers in Albania have gathered for a new session that the opposition tried to disrupt demanding the government to be investigated for alleged corruption. (AP Photo/Armando Babani)

Albanian opposition disrupts parliament as migration deal with Italy taken off the agenda

Democratic lawmakers throw flares during a parliament session in Tirana, Albania, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. The Albanian Parliament on Thursday passed the annual budget and other draft laws in a disrupted vote from the opposition using flares and noise to protest against what they consider as an authoritarian rule from the governing Socialist Party. (AP Photo/Armando Babani)

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Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks to the media following meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Allied leaders from the Western Balkan countries, in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Albania’s prime minister calls for more NATO troops in neighboring Kosovo following ethnic violence

Democratic lawmakers throw a flare during a parliament session in Tirana, Albania, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Albanian opposition lawmakers disrupted the Parliament's session again on Monday to protest against what they say, is increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialists. (AP Photo/Florian Abazi)

Albania’s opposition disrupts a budget vote with flares and piled-up chairs in Parliament

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Albania proposes a draft law on a contentious deal with Italy to jointly process asylum applications

FILE - Sali Berisha, the leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party, injured, speaks after he has been attacked during an anti-government protest held near a summit of European Union leaders and their counterparts from the Western Balkans in the capital Tirana, Albania , on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Albania’s former prime minister Sali Berisha said Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023 that prosecutors charged him with corruption and money laundering in connection with a land deal involving a Tirana property. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda, File)

Former Albanian prime minister says he’s charged with corruption and money laundering in land deal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a high level Security Council meeting during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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