Union for Human Rights Party

Albania minorities object to territorial division

Civil society groups in Albania call for a referendum on reversing the country's new territorial reorganisation to diffuse ethnic tensions.

The Macedonian minority representatives in Albania meet at Pustec municipality. [Courtesy of Municipality of Pustec]

Albania's main opposition party has slated plans to drastically cut the number of rural and urban municipalities from 350 to 61, three of which will be ethnic minority municipalities.

If the law is passed on July 31, it will be Albania’s first territorial administrative reform since 1992, following the collapse of the Communist regime.