The Albanian Coalition for Promotion of Women, Youth and Minorities in Politics organized the Open Forum “Local Elections 2007 and Participation of Women and Young Girls in the Political Processes in Albania”.
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Local elections on May 8 in Albania are an opportunity to put more women in public office in a country with one of the lowest percentages of elected women in Europe. That was the message delivered by Jozefina Topalli, Albania's speaker of parliament, to women who had just completed a 10-month program on campaign management, messaging and advocacy organized by NDI.

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Though promising to respect gender equality and political representation, political parties in Albania have neglected calls to include women candidates in the May 8th local elections. In all, only 17 out of the 768 candidates, or 3%, are women.

Adelina Farrici, a teacher from Burrelwas, was one of only two women to be elected mayors in local elections held on 8 May in Albania. She received 3,658 votes against 3,119 cast f