Albanian politician Monika Kryemadhi is the incumbent Member of the Albanian Parliament for Fier. Her husband Ilir Meta served as 8th President of Albania, and during such-time Monika refused the honorific position of First Lady of Albania and instead delegated it to her oldest daughter Bora. Monika is a founding-member of Socialist Movement for Integration and served as its Chairwoman.
Albanian politician Belinda Balluku is the country’s deputy prime minister and the minister of infrastructure and energy. She has also served as an MP from the Region of Tirana. She has also headed the company Albcontrol, which manages Albania’s airspace, as its general director.
The daughter of Albanian student movement leader and Democratic Party member Azem Hajdari, Rudina Hajdari now serves as a Member of the Albanian Parliament. She formed the Democrat Group and has chaired various political committees. She has also taught at the University of Tirana and at several institutes in the US.
A Member of the Albanian Parliament, Mimi Kodheli has also scripted history as the first female politician to hold the post of Albania’s minister of defense. She also heads the NATO Parliamentary Assembly as its vice president. The Socialist Party politician is a skilled economist, too.
Albanian guerrilla fighter and the daughter of Grude leader Smajl Martini, Tringe Smajli is remembered for her valiant fight against the Ottomans of Malësia. She vowed to be a virgin for life and dressed up in men’s clothes. Her heroics have made her part of Albanian folklore.
Albanian politician and Democratic Party member Jozefina Topalli has been the Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, the first woman to hold the post. Equipped with degrees in math, law, and international relations, she also has a PhD and has taught at the Luigj Gurakuqi University in Shkodra.
Albanian politician and Socialist Party member Ogerta Manastirliu now represents Tirana as a Member of the Albanian Parliament. She is also the country’s Minister of Health and Social Care. Equipped with a degree in analytical chemistry, she was once dragged into a controversy related to plagiarism in her doctoral thesis.
Kosovar Albanian politician and jurist Albulena Haxhiu, who is the granddaughter of iconic Albanian revolutionary and political activist Ahmet Haxhiu, now serves as Albania’s minister of justice. She has previously also represented the autonomous province of Pristina as a Member of the Kosovo Assembly.
Albanian politician and Socialist Party member Elisa Spiropali is the country’s incumbent Minister of State for Relations with Parliament. Equipped with degrees in politics and economics, she is an international scholar and has also lectured in several Albanian universities. She has previously also been a customs director.
Albanian Kosovar politician and The Alternative chairperson, Mimoza Kusari-Lila has previously also been Albania’s Minister of Trade and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister. She has also served as the mayor of Gjakova, thus scripting history as Kosovo’s first and only female mayor ever. She has also been associated with the World Bank and USAID.