{"id":19439,"date":"2021-09-02T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2021-09-02T12:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T10:35:03","slug":"lindita-nikolla-appointed-new-speaker-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/lindita-nikolla-appointed-new-speaker-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindita Nikolla appointed new Speaker of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed the former education minister Lindita Nikolla as the new Speaker of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Rama had previously warned that the post would go to a woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the top of the Albanian Assembly, as a woman with a long history of contributions and experience in our political family. As an undoubted example of commitment and nobility in carrying every duty, as a good friend to all and career political characterized by her will in having a well-mannered dialogue with others, she will also be an ex-officio member of the Socialist Party leadership\u201d, said Rama.<\/p>\n<p>Asked from Euronews Albania, Nikolla said that the new post came to her a surprise, emphasizing that she had no information whatsoever of taking the lead of the Albanian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is translated as a great responsibility to live up to this trust bestowed on me. Let\u2019s await until all procedures are finished to speak more broadly about the new duty\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former speaker of the assembly, Gramoz Ru\u00e7i, announced that he is stepping down from politics at the age of 69 after a 3-decade long career during an extraordinary congress of the Socialist Party back in June.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews Albania also spoke to the former speaker of the Assembly, and senior member of the Socialist Party, over\u00a0his opinion for the newly appointed ministers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s wait and see\u201d, he responded.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he added that he will only retain his role as a \u201csocialist, family guy, and perfect grandpa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/02\/who-are-the-new-ministers-of-the-government-rama-3\/\">Who are the new ministers of the government Rama 3?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/02\/damian-gjiknuri-to-replace-taulant-balla-as-new-secretary-general-of-the-sp\/\">Damian Gjiknuri to replace Taulant Balla as new Secretary-General of the SP<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/02\/socialist-partys-assembly-kicks-off-new-cabinet-set-to-be-revealed\/\">Socialist Party\u2019s Assembly kicks off, PM Rama reveals ambitions for a fourth term<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed the former education minister Lindita Nikolla as the new Speaker of Parliament. Rama had previously warned that the post would go to a woman. \u201cAt the top of the Albanian Assembly, as a woman with a long history of contributions and experience in our political family. As an undoubted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19440,"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>Lindita Nikolla appointed new Speaker of Parliament - 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\/lindita-nikolla-appointed-new-speaker-of-parliament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lindita Nikolla appointed new Speaker of Parliament - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Edi Rama has appointed the former education minister Lindita Nikolla as the new Speaker of Parliament. 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