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Alliance for a Magnificent Albania

political party in Albania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ133578286 ↗
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Alliance for a Magnificent Albania (Albanian: Aleanca për Shqipërinë Madhështore, ASHM) is a predominantly centre-right Albanian political coalition in the 2025 parliamentary elections consisting of 24 conservative political parties in Albania. It is led by Democratic Party.

History

The Union for Victory Coalition (Albanian: Bashkimi për Fitoren) was a coalition of political parties in Albania. The spokesman was Gent Strazimiri. It received 37.1% of the vote and 46 members of parliament in the 2001 election.

Following the 1997 election and the Civil War. The Democratic party of Albania had lost its majority in parliament and as a result it had to continue to be in parliament as opposition. Sali Berisha had been blamed for the governments mishandling of the Pyramid Schemes. In 2001 Berisha and smaller Centrist and Right wing parties formed the "Union for Victory coalition" The Coalition itself was an attempt to change the bad image of 1997, Sali Berisha dressed his deputies in white shirts and formed the Coalition "Union for Victory". While the Coalition itself did make significant gains.

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