Overview

• Prime Minister Edi Rama's Socialist Party secured 82 of 140 parliamentary seats, marking an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office.
• The election introduced mail-in voting for the diaspora, with approximately 195,000 ballots cast, though opposition disputes some of these votes.
• The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported misuse of public resources, voter intimidation, and institutional bias during the campaign.
• Opposition leader Sali Berisha alleged widespread vote-buying and has called for protests, rejecting the election results as fraudulent.
• Rama campaigned on a platform of achieving European Union membership by 2030, a goal seen as ambitious but central to his pro-European agenda.