Ana Dajko
Ana Dajko | |
|---|---|
| Ana Kosta Dajko | |
| Member of the Parliament of Albania | |
| Assumed office 12 September 2025 | |
| Constituency | Tirana County |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ana Kosta Dajko 12 June 1965 |
| Party | Lëvizja Shqipëria Bëhet |
| Occupation | Politician |
Ana Kosta Dajko (born 12 June 1965) is an Albanian politician who has served as a member of the Parliament of Albania since September 2025. She represents the Albania Becomes Initiative coalition, led by Lëvizja Shqipëria Bëhet, and was elected from the Tirana County constituency after a post-election dispute over the coalition's only parliamentary mandate.
Early life and background
[edit]Dajko was born in Sarandë on 12 June 1965. In her candidate biography submitted for the 2025 Albanian parliamentary election, she listed secondary education and self-employment as her professional background.[1]
Political career
[edit]2025 parliamentary election
[edit]Dajko stood as a candidate for the Albania Becomes Initiative coalition in the 2025 Albanian parliamentary election. The coalition was formed by Lëvizja Shqipëria Bëhet, Nisma Thurje and the League for the Rights of Albanian Workers, and was led politically by Adriatik Lapaj.[2] The coalition received 64,264 votes, or 4.00 per cent of the national vote, and won one of the 140 seats in parliament.[3]
The mandate became the subject of a dispute inside the coalition and before Albania's election bodies. Dajko had been ranked first on the coalition's closed candidate list in Tirana County, while Lapaj and Endri Shabani sought to have the seat pass to the most-voted candidates on the open list. The Complaints and Sanctions Commission held that declarations of withdrawal from candidacy submitted by closed-list candidates on election day had no legal effect and that the mandate belonged to Dajko as the first-ranked closed-list candidate.[4] On 25 August 2025, the Electoral College upheld the outcome, leaving the coalition's only mandate to Dajko and enabling the Central Election Commission to complete certification of the election results.[5][6]
Dajko entered parliament on 12 September 2025, becoming the sole parliamentary representative of the Albania Becomes Initiative coalition in the new legislature.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Jetëshkrimi i kandidatit për deputet: Ana Kosta Dajko" (PDF) (in Albanian). Central Election Commission. 11 May 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "'Nisma Shqipëria Bëhet' regjistrohet në KQZ. Tre parti bashkohen për zgjedhjet e 11 majit". A2 CNN (in Albanian). 3 March 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (23 October 2025). Republic of Albania: Parliamentary Elections, 11 May 2025 – ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report (PDF) (Report). OSCE/ODIHR. p. 35. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "KAS i jep mandatin Ana Dajkos, nuk njihen aktet e dorëheqjes nga kandidimi, Adriatik Lapaj mbetet 'thatë'". Vizion Plus (in Albanian). 30 July 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "CEC certification clears final hurdle; single Nisma mandate awarded to political newby". Albanian Times. 25 August 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "Ana Dajko shpallet deputete e Nismës Shqipëria Bëhet, Kolegji Zgjedhor mbyll sagën e përplasjes Lapaj-Shabani". Shqiptarja.com (in Albanian). 25 August 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.
- ↑ "Mori mandatin pas përplasjes Lapaj-Shabani, Ana Dajko shkon në Parlament dhe 'mbërthehet' nga emocionet". BalkanWeb (in Albanian). 12 September 2025. Retrieved 24 June 2026.