Talk:1945 Albanian parliamentary election

Requested move

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No consensus to move.''' Vegaswikian (talk) 20:11, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Albanian parliamentary election, 1945 → Albanian Constituent Assembly election, 1945 – Albanian sources do not classify the election as a "parliamentary" one. The History of the Party of Labor of Albania (1971 ed) and the History of the Socialist Construction of Albania (both widely disseminated in their Albanian-language versions) are two leading examples. This is also noted in The Balkans: A Post-Communist History, p. 33 where the authors refer to it as a Constituent Assembly election. I think the content of the article makes it fairly clear, also, that there was no parliament (or an actual constitutional government, for that matter) for a parliamentary election to even theoretically take place. Mrdie (talk) 18:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose Alternatively, a book that specialises in elections and electoral systems (Nohlen & Stöver, Elections in Europe: A data handbook - the chapter on Albania is written by Dorothée de Nève) refers to it as a parliamentary election. Number   5  7  19:06, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment While I wouldn't dispute the numbers used in actually tabulating the electoral results, looking up "Albania," "1945" and "parliamentary election" (or "parliamentary elections") on Google Books brings up no relevant results. Out of all the sources I have, Albanian and non-Albanian alike (but focused on Albanian history), I am confident that none of them call it a parliamentary election. Nicholas C. Pano, a veteran historian of modern Albania, notes in The Columbia History of Eastern Europe that elections were held (p. 35) "for the constituent assembly that would establish the new political order in Albania." This is also noted in The Constitutions of the Communist World which states (p. 2) that, "In December 1945, elections were held to elect a Constituent Assembly, which proclaimed Albania to be a People's Republic on 11 January 1946." --Mrdie (talk) 19:23, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
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