The Albanian authorities says the nation’s first post-communist prime minister is in hospital preventing for his life
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FILE – Then Albanian prime minister and chief Socialist social gathering, Fatos Nano, waves to supporters through the closing rally of the Socialist Social gathering 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 preventing for his life. Fatos Nano based Albania’s Socialist Social gathering 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 Photograph/Visar Kryeziu, File)
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TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s first post-communist prime minister, Fatos Nano, was in a hospital and preventing for his life, the present prime minister’s workplace mentioned Thursday.
Nano, 70, has been in intensive care at a non-public 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 Social gathering in 1991 after the breakup of the previous communist social gathering that ran Albania’s dictatorship after World Battle 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 battle for his life, the Socialist Social gathering’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 development 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 social gathering chief after shedding the 2005 election and was changed by Rama.
Afterwards, Nano was reluctant to get entangled in politics.