Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Albanian Elections

It's not fully over, but it's becoming more and more clear that the Democratic Party has won the majority of the 100 zones up for the taking. However, I don't think they'll have a majority in Parliament to elect a Prime Minister from their party (the Albanian parliament has 140 members, the other 40 designated by the percentage of votes their respective parties received), but it still can't be said with high certainty. But this definitely sucks hard; eight years of great rule brought to an end (at this point, seemingly)....it's that great circle of democratic life again.....I still wana reiterate though: Albanian elections are known for being so controversial and fractious that the real results may not be known for a while and one or more of the parties may be complaining and contesting the numbers for far longer anyway.

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