Albania
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- Parliamentary Republic
- CONSTITUTION
- November 28, 1998; amended several times, last in 2020
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil law system except in the northern rural areas where customary law known as "Codex of Leke" still applies; not subject to ICJ jurisdiction
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- Unicameral Assembly (Kuvendi)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (composed of 19 judges); Constitutional Court (composed of 9 judges, including the president); Courts of Appeal; First Instance Courts; special courts: Court for Corruption and Organized Crime, Court of Appeal for Corruption and Organized Crime (responsible for corruption, organized crime, and high officials' offenses)
RELIGIONS
Muslim 56.7%, Roman Catholic 10%, Orthodox 6.8%, Atheist 2.5%, Bektashi (a Sufi order) 2.1%, Other 5.7%, Not specified 16.2% (estimate 2011)
From the country
- FEBRUARY 29, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Albanian People's Assembly adopted the agreement...
The Albanian People's Assembly adopted the agreement signed in Bern on February 29, 2000 between the Albanian Government and the Swiss Federal Council
- JANUARY 31, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe (CE) authorities welcomed the decision...
Council of Europe (CE) authorities welcomed the decision of the Albanian Constitutional Court to abrogate the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2000AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty was abolished on December 10, 1999...
The death penalty was abolished on December 10, 1999 as the Constitutional Court considered it to be against the spirit of the new Constitution approved by a popular referendum on November 22, 1998
- DECEMBER 10, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On December 10, the head of the Constitutional Court,...
On December 10, the head of the Constitutional Court, Fehmi Abdiu, declared that: ?All articles of the penal code in peacetime that provide the death penalty are unconstitutional
- DECEMBER 10, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On December 10, the head of the Constitutional Court,...
On December 10, the head of the Constitutional Court, Fehmi Abdiu, declared that: "all articles of the penal code in peacetime that provide the death penalty are unconstitutional
- NOVEMBER 1, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
In November, the Constitutional Court began to examine...
In November, the Constitutional Court began to examine the legitimacy of the death penalty, after a capital sentence was pronounced by the Court of Appeal of Saranda on Flamur Rokajit convicted of murder
- JULY 1, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
In July, a political debate on the question of the...
In July, a political debate on the question of the death penalty was generated by the request of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the ratification of Protocol No
- JANUARY 18, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
On January 18, the Bureau of the Council of Europe...
On January 18, the Bureau of the Council of Europe issued a statement in Paris reminding Albania of its commitments as a Member State of the Council to abolish the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 1999AlbaniaDEATH PENALTY
Albania cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Albania cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 28 (no