Ramiz Ali was born in Shkod\u00ebr, president of Albania in 1991\u20131992, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania (1986\u20131991), Chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania (1985\u20131988), participant in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of Socialist Labor. He attended the high school in Tirana, where he joined the communist movement. Member of the Albanian Communist Youth since its foundation and member of the Albanian Communist Party since 1943. During the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, he performed important tasks in the leadership of the Communist Youth organization, in the political sector of the VII Assault Brigade and in the II Assault Division, commissar of the V Offensive Division. At the 1st Congress of the Albanian Anti-Fascist Youth Union (1944) he was elected a member of the Youth Secretariat and at the Youth Unification Congress (1949) he was elected the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labor Youth Union. In the years 1951\u20131954 he studied at the Higher Party School in Moscow. In the years 1955-1958, Minister of Education and Culture; member of the Political Bureau; deputy of the People’s Assembly (1950\u20131990) and Chairman of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly (1982\u20131990). After the death of Enver Hoxha (1985), he was elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania. The IX Congress of the Labor Party of Albania was convened under his leadership, described by him as the “Congress of Continuity”. He took some partial steps for the liberalization of the country’s life, for changes in the field of economy, human rights, in foreign policy, for the opening of Albania to the world, etc. These steps were insufficient and delayed and aimed at reforming the system, but not changing it. Under the pressure of the student movement and the tense internal and external political situation, in December 1990 he announced political pluralism. Meanwhile, he tried to make the transition to the democratic system by avoiding the risk of violent clashes of political forces. The parliament that emerged from the first pluralist elections (March 31, 1991) elected him President of the Republic of Albania. After the elections of March 22, 1992, which were won by the Democratic Party, he resigned from the post of president and retired from political life. In 1993, he was arrested and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for economic embezzlement. After a year he was released from prison, but was arrested again in 1996, on the charge of genocide. He was finally released from prison after the riots of March 1997. In the years 1986-1990, seven of his volumes were published under the title “Fjalime e biseda” (\u201cSpeeches and Conversations\u201d): his other books: “Enveri yn\u00eb” (\u201cOur Enver\u201d) (1988), “Un\u00eb Ramiz Alia d\u00ebshmoj p\u00ebr historin\u00eb” (\u201cI Ramiz Alia testify about history\u201d) (1992), “Shpresa dhe zhg\u00ebnjime” (\u201cHopes and disappointments\u201d)(1993) etc. He passed away in 2011. (In the photo: Ramiz Alia)<\/i> <\/p>\n
Text:<\/strong> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 53-54. <\/p>\n Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramiz_Alia <\/p>\n Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ramiz Alia was born in Shkod\u00ebr, serving as the President of Albania from 1991 to 1992, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labor (1986\u20131991), Chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania (1985\u20131988), a participant in the National Liberation Antifascist War, and a Hero of Socialist Labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions\/12038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}