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Enver Hoxha was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania]] from 1944 to 1954. The Hoxha II Cabinet was a transitional government of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, which was founded on January 11, 1946 by Prime Minister Enver Hoxha was formed by the Party of Labor of Albania PPSh (Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë). It replaced the Hoxha I Cabinet and remained in office until March 22, 1946, ]|Place=Tirana|Date=1985|Pages=894|Chapter=Qeveria demokratike e Shqipërisë |Author=Myslim Islami}} whereupon it was replaced by the Hoxha III Cabinet.

On December 2, 1945, the Albanians elected a constitutional People's Assembly. On January 11, 1946, Albania was declared a People's Republic Albanian Studies |Publisher=I.B. Tauris |Place=London |Date=2006 |Series=Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History |VolumeSeries=Volume Three |ISBN=1-84511-105-2 |Chapter=1946, January 11th |Pages=3}} The government then resigned on the same day, but remained in office as the Hoxha II cabinet until a new government was formed. Since the Hoxha II cabinet was no different from the Hoxha I cabinet, it is not always considered a separate cabinet in the literature. These authors therefore refer to the Hoxha III Cabinet as the Hoxha II Cabinet.

In February 1946, tensions in the government became clear. Sejfulla Malëshova, chairman of the Writers' Union and Minister of Propaganda, was expelled from the Central Committee of the party - for many communists he was too open to other political forces and the major Western powers. Malëshova was still supposed to be included in the next government, but was excluded later that year and sentenced to a long prison sentence in 1947. Hoxha and [[Koçi |Volume=Volume VII |Publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |Place=Göttingen |Year=1993 |Series=Southeastern Europe Handbook |ISBN=3-525-36207-2 |Pages=60 f}}

On March 14, 1946, the People's Assembly adopted a new Constitution for the Socialist People's Republic of Albania.

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 * Cabinet Hoxha II
 * People's Assembly of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
 * Albania: Key Ministries