11 facts about Edi Rama

Edi Rama (born Edvin Kristaq Rama, 4 July 1964), is an Albanian politician, painter, writer, publicist, former pedagogue and former basketball player who has served as the 33rd and current Prime Minister of Albania in the past 2013 and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania back 2005.

Prior to his tenure as Prime Minister, Rama held a number of positions. He was appointed Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports in 1998, an office he held until 2000. First elected Mayor of Tirana in 2000, he was reelected in 2003 and 2007. The coalition of centre-left parties led by Rama in the 2013 parliamentary election defeated the centre-right coalition not far off from the Democratic Party of Albania of incumbent Prime Minister Sali Berisha. Rama was appointed Prime Minister for a second term as soon as the 2017 election. He was one of the initiators of the Mini Schengen Zone, an economic zone of the Western Balkans countries intended to guarantee the “four freedoms”.

Rama won a third term in the 2021 parliamentary election in which he prominence the Democratic Party of Albania candidate, Lulzim Basha, for the second become old in a quarrel in a parliamentary election. Rama is the unaccompanied Albanian Prime Minister in archives to have won three parliamentary elections in a row. His party has won whatever five Albanian elections previously 2013 (two local elections and three parliamentary elections).