FLASH
Shkruar nga Eduard Zaloshnja
At the beginning of the new millennium, coalitions led by the DP have only once exceeded the 45% quota - in 2009 - when Berisha was extremely powerful and used the entire state machinery to secure at least 71 parliamentary mandates for his coalition (which it failed to obtain).
Of the elections of the 1990s, only those of 1992 can be considered normal. And they were won by the coalition led by the DP (which also included the PSD, PR, PBDNJ) with 67%. Those elections sealed the end of the communist regime, which was massively welcomed by voters on the right and left.
At the beginning of the new millennium, coalitions led by the DP have only once exceeded the 45% quota - in 2009 - when Berisha was extremely powerful and used the entire state machinery to secure at least 71 parliamentary mandates for his coalition (which it failed to obtain).
Thus, in 2001, the coalition led by the DP (called the Coalition for Victory) received only 36.9% of the popular vote. The elections were strongly contested by Berisha, but were not annulled. However, while the international community recognized the legitimacy of the socialist victory, it did not accept the legitimacy of the 84 mandates that the socialist coalition secured with the Dushku trick (the ones it needed to elect the President of the Republic). As a result, an agreement was reached for a consensual president (Alfred Moisiu).
In 2005, the coalition led by the DP (called the Alliance for Freedom, Justice and Welfare) received only 44.1% of the popular vote. However, it only managed to come to power thanks to the division of the left camp, which competed with 6 different acronyms in competition with each other (PS, LSI, PSD, PAA, AD, and PBDNJ).
In 2009, the DP-led coalition (called the Alliance for Change) received only 46.9% of the popular vote, falling short of the 71 mandates needed to govern. As a result, Berisha was forced to make a four-year governing agreement with former enemy Meta.
In 2013, the DP-led coalition (called the Alliance for Employment, Welfare and Integration) received only 39.5% of the popular vote. As a result, Berisha left the Prime Minister’s office in tears after receiving 1 million “slaps” from the SP-led coalition.
In 2017, the DP competed without a coalition and recorded the lowest quota in its electoral history – it received only 28.9% of the popular vote!
In 2021, the DP-led coalition (called the Alliance for Change) received only 39.4% of the popular vote, returning to the level it had in 2013, when it left power.
On May 11, 2025, the DP-led coalition (called the Alliance for a Greater Albania) returned to electoral decline – receiving only 32.9% of the popular vote. Berisha is strongly contesting the results of the May 11 elections. And it remains to be seen whether the international community will recognize the legitimacy of the 84-vote qualified vote in the Assembly for reforms related to European integration…
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