The Albanian authorities says the nation’s first post-communist prime minister is in hospital combating for his life
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FILE – Then Albanian prime minister and chief Socialist occasion, Fatos Nano, waves to supporters in the course of the closing rally of the Socialist Occasion in Albania’s capital Tirana on Friday, July 1, 2005. The Albanian authorities says the nation’s first post-communist prime minister is in hospital combating for his life. Fatos Nano based Albania’s Socialist Occasion in 1991 and served three phrases as prime minister. Nano, who’s 70 years previous, is in intensive care in a hospital within the capital, Tirana, the place he is being handled for issues along with his lungs. (AP Picture/Visar Kryeziu, File)
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TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s first post-communist prime minister, Fatos Nano, was in a hospital and combating for his life, the present prime minister’s workplace mentioned Thursday.
Nano, 70, has been in intensive care at a personal hospital within the capital, Tirana, for the previous week, being handled for issues along with his lungs.
Nano was the founding father of the governing Socialist Occasion in 1991 after the breakup of the previous communist occasion that ran Albania’s dictatorship after World Warfare 2. He additionally served briefly as prime minister for 4 months in 1991.
Nano’s successor, Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama, was praying “at these troublesome hours of the combat for his life, the Socialist Occasion’s historic chief,” he wrote on Fb.
On Thursday, Rama awarded Nano certainly one of Albania’s highest honors, the Nice Cordon with the Star of Public Appreciation, “for his distinguished contribution to the development of the constitutional and democratic state in Albania, the liberal pattern in his management and exemplary tolerance within the extraordinarily troublesome moments of the nationwide political life, but in addition his private life, his decisive function within the social efforts for the nation’s future.”
In 1993 Nano was sentenced to 12 years in jail on costs of falsifying paperwork and misappropriating funds, however his conviction was overturned after his launch, primarily based on inadequate proof.
By 1997, Albania was in nearly complete anarchy following the collapse of failed pyramid funding schemes the place poor Albanians misplaced their life financial savings.
There have been no guards at Nano’s jail, so he broke out. He was formally pardoned a couple of days later by the president on the time, Sali Berisha.
Nano served as Prime Minister in 1997-1998 and once more in 2002-2005. He resigned as occasion chief after dropping the 2005 election and was changed by Rama.
Afterwards, Nano was reluctant to become involved in politics.