Edmond Spaho

Edmond Spaho (born 14 November 1958) is an Albanian Democratic Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Elbasan.[1]

Edmond Spaho

MP
Member of the Albanian Parliament
for Elbasan
Assumed office
September 9, 2017 (2017-09-09)
Minister of Tourism
In office
April 6, 1993 (1993-04-06) – December 3, 1994 (1994-12-03)
Prime MinisterAleksander Meksi
Preceded byOsman Shehu
Personal details
Born (1958-11-14) 14 November 1958
Tirana
NationalityAlbanian
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materUniversity of Tirana

Early life and education

Edmond Spaho is born in Tirana. He studied for economy at the University of Tirana, where he graduated in 1982. In 1992, has completed studies on Financial Programming and Policy at the IMF Institute in Washington, D.C.. During 1995-1996 has completed the graduate studies in Business Administration at the Bowling Green State University, Ohio, United States.[2]

Political career

Spaho has exercised several important positions in the public administration including Deputy General Director of the State Stock, Director of the Macroeconomics Department at the Ministry of Economy. On May 1992 he was appointed Deputy Minister of The Ministry of Tourism and on 6 April 1993 was appointed as Minister of Tourism, in Aleksander Meksi Government. He left the office in 3 December 1994. He is member of the Democratic Party of Albania since its foundation. Since 2001, has also been elected Secretary for the Economy, member of the National Council, and member of the Presidency of the Democratic Party.[3]

Spaho was elected as a member of the Parliament of Albania in the 2005 general election as a member of the Democratic Party for the Korçë constituency.[4] During the 2005-2009 and 2009-2013 legislatures, has been the Chairman of Standing Committee on Economy and Finance.

He was re-elected as MP in the same electoral zone, thus becoming one of the 56 MPs of the Democratic Party's parliamentary group for the years 2009-2013.[5] He also was re-elected as Member of Parliament in the 2013 elections, where his party lost the elections, thus becoming deputy of opposition for next four years.[6] During the legislature 2013–2017 years Mr. Spaho was appointed as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Albania.

In the 2017 general election, Edmond Spaho was elected a deputy in the Elbasan District, thus becoming the deputy of the Albanian parliament for the fourth consecutive time.[7] He is incumbent leader of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group since 9 September 2017.[8]

See also
  • List of MPs of Parliament of Albania

References
  1. "List of MPs by counties (2017-2021)" (PDF). Parliament of Albania.
  2. "Republic of Albania, Legislature VIII (2009-2013)". Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). 2012. p. 77.
  3. "List of MP's of the Parliament of Albania (2005-2009)" (PDF). Parliament of Albania (in Albanian). p. 109.
  4. "List of MP's of the Parliament of Albania (2005-2009)" (PDF). Parliament of Albania (in Albanian). p. 17.
  5. "List of MP's by county for 2009 General Election". Tirana Observer. 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  6. "List of MP's by counties for the 2013 general election" (PDF). Central Election Commission (in Albanian). p. 2.
  7. "List of MPs by counties (2017-2021)" (PDF). Parliament of Albania.
  8. "Democratic Party Parliamentary Group" (PDF). Parliament of Albania.
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