Editing Rexhep Meidani (section)

== Political career ==
Meidani's political career began in the 1990s. He assumed the role of the chair of the Central Election Commission during the inaugural multiparty elections in 1991 and was a member of the Presidential Council in the same year. From 1992 to 1996, he actively participated in civil society, serving as the chair of the Board of the Albanian Center of Human Rights from 1994 to 1996. Joining the [[Socialist Party of Albania|Socialist Party]] in 1996, Meidani was elected its Secretary General from 1996 to 1997.

Following his election to the [[Albanian Assembly]] in the parliamentary elections of June 1997, Meidani became a member of parliament. Subsequently, after the left coalition, led by the Socialist Party, emerged victorious in the elections, he was proposed by the SP and, on 24 July 1997, was elected as the [[President of Albania]] by the Albanian Assembly. He held the office until 2002, with [[Petrit Ago]] as his counsellor.

In the 2005 Socialist Party Leadership Convention, convened to select a successor to Fatos Nano, Meidani faced defeat at the hands of the present Chairman of the Socialist Party, [[Edi Rama]]. 

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