Pandeli Majko
1st Minister of State for Diaspora
In office
13 September 2017 – 18 September 2021
Prime MinisterEdi Rama
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
30th Prime Minister of Albania
In office
22 February 2002 – 25 July 2002
PresidentRexhep Meidani
Alfred Moisiu
Preceded byIlir Meta
Succeeded byFatos Nano
In office
2 October 1998 – 29 October 1999
PresidentRexhep Meidani
Preceded byFatos Nano
Succeeded byIlir Meta
Personal details
Born (1967-11-15) 15 November 1967[1]
Tirana, Albania
Political partySocialist Party
SpouseEnkelejda Majko
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Tirana
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Pandeli Sotir Majko (born 15 November 1967)[1] is an Albanian socialist politician. He served twice as Prime Minister of Albania; once from 1998 to 1999, and again in 2002.[2]

Political career

Early career

Majko has been a member of the Euro-Socialist Youth Forum of Albania (FRESH) since its foundation in 1992. FRESH is itself a member of the International Union of Socialist Youth.[3] From 1992 to 1995, Majko served as President of FRESH. Former Prime Minister Ilir Meta was also a member of FRESH. 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. In 1997–1998 Majko was secretary general of the Socialist Party and head of its parliamentary group.

Prime Minister

First term (1998–1999)

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.[4]

Second term (2002)

After the government of Ilir Meta, 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. Following the government's defeat in the 2005 elections, he returned to his former position as secretary general of the Socialist Party.

Later career

In 2006, Majko came out in support of Montenegro's vote for independence from Serbia. He was quoted celebrating the reduction in Albania's shared border with Serbia.

He is member of the General Council of the Transnational Radical Party.[5]

Personal life

Majko was born in Tirana,[1] to a family originally from Gjirokastra.[6][7] In March 2013, after voting in favor of changing the name of the Liqenas to "Pustec" through a Facebook status, he denied having Slavic roots and introduced the beginning of his family, which started with a German doctor who moved from Parga to Gjirokastra due to the occupation of Parga by Ali Pasha of Ioannina, where he later married a local woman and was nicknamed "Memeci" due to the lack of fluent communication in the Albanian language, a nickname that would later become a surname. But later, this surname was changed to Majko by Pandeli's great-grandfather due to the trade relations that the family had at that time.[6][7]

On 8 February 2016, Majko in an interview confirmed that he has started the procedure to obtain a Kosovo passport,[8] and after two months through a Facebook status he confirms that is officially a citizen of Kosovo.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ministri" [Minister] (in Albanian). Minister of State for Diaspora (Albania). Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  2. ↑ Jeffries, Ian (2002). Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition). Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 0-415-23671-1.
  3. ↑ "Member Organisations". International Union of Socialist Youth. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  4. ↑ (in Dutch) "Niet de allerjongste premier - Uitgelicht - algemeen - TC Tubantia" (in Dutch). Tctubantia.nl. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
  5. ↑ RadicalParty.org - Elenco dei 50 membri del Consiglio Generale Archived 2012-07-18 at archive.today (in Italian)
  6. 1 2 "STERGJYSHI IM..." [MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER]. Facebook (in Albanian). Pandeli Majko. 19 March 2013.[self-published]
  7. 1 2 "Pandeli Majko: Jam me origjinë gjermane" [Pandeli Majko: I am of German origin] (in Albanian). Telegrafi. 20 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Majko dëshiron të bëhet banor i Prishtinës" [Majko wants to become a resident of Prishtina] (in Albanian). Koha Ditore. 8 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Prej më shumë se 48 orësh jam edhe shtetas i Kosovës. Falenderoj Presidenten Jahjaga. Sot në Prishtinë isha me "status" tjetër" [I have been a citizen of Kosovo for more than 48 hours. Thank you President Jahjaga. Today in Prishtina I had a different "status".]. Facebook (in Albanian). Pandeli Majko. 8 April 2016.[self-published]
  10. ↑ "Majko merr shtetësinë e Kosovës" [Majko acquires the citizenship of Kosovo] (in Albanian). Koha Ditore. 8 April 2016.
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