Fatos Nano

Fatos Nano

Fatos Thanas Nano listen (born September 16, 1952 in Tirana) is an Albanian statesman being the Prime Minister of Albania several times, the first leader and founder of the Socialist Party of Albania, and member of the Albanian Parliament from 1991 to 1996 and 1997 to 2009. He reformed the Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist ideology of Labor Party of Albania into social democracy for its successor, the Socialist Party of Albania. During his leadership the Socialist Party of Albania, as a result of reforms joined the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists. Nano was candidate for Presidential Elections of 2007 but did not win. He again tried the Albanian Presidency in 2012, but he did not even qualify for candidate, because the leaders parties in Parliament obstructed their respective MPs to elect him as candidate in the elections.