{"id":19262,"date":"2021-08-31T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19262"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:42:54","slug":"dp-new-leadership-leaves-out-agron-shehaj-new-faces-from-gjekmarkaj-to-zekthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/dp-new-leadership-leaves-out-agron-shehaj-new-faces-from-gjekmarkaj-to-zekthi\/","title":{"rendered":"DP leadership leaves out Agron Shehaj, new faces from Gjekmarkaj to Zekthi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new members of the Democratic Party leadership have been announced. Amongst them, there are several new names that are becoming a part of the party\u2019s leadership for the first time including Agron Gjekmarkaj, Fitim Zekthi, Kreshnik Collaku, Tomor Alizoti and Lindita Metaliaj.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership has now expanded not only through these 15 member elected by the National Council, but also through the heads of secretariats, deputy directors and the leaders of partner organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Albania correspondent, Ardit Hoxha reported from DP\u2019s headquarters that the total number of members making up the new leadership is now 38, a number larger than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>After the process of vote counting, which wrapped up at around 1:30 a.m., renowned Democrat personalities seem to have been left out.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Agron Shehaj, who was 7 votes short, or Xhelal Mziu, who needed another 3 votes to become a member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/02\/two-potential-scenarios-that-might-leave-sali-berisha-out-from-dps-parliamentary-group\/\">Two potential scenarios that might leave Sali Berisha out of DP\u2019s parliamentary group<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/06\/dp-cant-play-by-double-standards-over-dos-stance-says-analyst\/\">DP can\u2019t play by double standards over DoS stance, says analyst<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/26\/dp-gathers-national-council-on-august-30th-to-decide-on-new-secretary-and-parliamentary-group\/\">DP gathers National Council on August 30th to decide on new secretary and parliamentary group<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new members of the Democratic Party leadership have been announced. 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The leadership has now expanded not only through these 15 member elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":19263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DP leadership leaves out Agron Shehaj, new faces from Gjekmarkaj to Zekthi - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/dp-new-leadership-leaves-out-agron-shehaj-new-faces-from-gjekmarkaj-to-zekthi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DP leadership leaves out Agron Shehaj, new faces from Gjekmarkaj to Zekthi - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The new members of the Democratic Party leadership have been announced. 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