Pandeli Majko was Prime Minister of Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

 from 1998 to 1999 and for a short time in 2002.

He graduated at the University of Tirana

University of Tirana

The University of Tirana is a public university located in Tirana, Albania.-History:UT was founded in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through the merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947...

, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and later in Law.

MP of the Socialist Party (1992)

During 1992-1995 Majko was President of the Euro-Socialist Youth Forum of Albania, FRESSH, member of the Socialist Youth International

Socialist Youth International

Socialist Youth International was an international union of socialist youth organisations. It was founded in Hamburg 1923, through the merger of the Young Workers' International and the International Community of Socialist Youth Organisations...

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In 1992 he entered the Albanian Parliament as MP for the Socialist Party. In 1997-2001 he took part in the parliamentary committee charged with the task of drafting the new Constitution of Albania

Constitution of Albania

The current Constitution of Albania was adopted on November 28, 1998. It defines Albania as a parliamentary republic. According to the current Constitution, the Republic of Albania has a unicameral legislature composed of 140 deputies, who elect the head of state, the President of Albania, and the...

. In 1997-1998 Majko was secretary general of the Socialist Party and head of its parliamentary group.

Prime Minister (1998-1999, 2002) and Defence Minister (2002-2005)

From September 1998 to October 1999 Majko held his first government as prime minister of Albania. He was the youngest Prime Minister of Albania, appointed when he was 30 years old in 1998 for the first time.

After the government of Ilir Meta

Ilir Meta

Ilir Rexhep Meta is an Albanian politician. He is the current Deputy Prime Minister. He was Prime Minister of Albania from 1999 to 2002 and has been Foreign minister twice since then.- Studies :...

, he briefly came back to premiership from February to July 2002. He subsequently held the post of Minister of Defence from July 2002 to September 2005 in the government of Fatos Nano

Fatos Nano

Fatos Thanas Nano is an Albanian economist who was Prime Minister of Albania during several periods, the first leader of the Socialist Party of Albania, and member of the Albanian Parliament from 1991 to 1996 and 1997 to 2009...

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He is member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party

Transnational Radical Party

The Transnational Radical Party is a political association of citizens, parliamentarians and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to use nonviolent means to create an effective body of international law with respect for individuals and the...

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