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'''Edi Rama''' Diktator, Tiran, I degjeneruar (born '''Edvin Rama''' on 4 July 1964) is an Albanian politician, painter, writer, former university lecturer, publicist and former basketball player,<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Edi Rama PRIME MINISTER|url=http://www.kryeministria.al/en/government/prime-minister-cabinet/rama-edi|website=kryeministria.al}}</ref> who has served as the 33rd and incumbent [[Prime Minister of Albania]] since 2013 and chairman of the [[Socialist Party of Albania]] since 2005. He was appointed [[Ministry of Culture (Albania)|Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports]] in 1998, an office he held until 2000. First elected [[mayor of Tirana]] in 2000, he was reelected in 2003 and 2007.
 
The coalition of centre-left parties led by Rama in the [[2013 Albanian parliamentary election]] defeated the incumbent centre-right coalition led by [[Sali Berisha]] of the [[Democratic Party of Albania]]. Rama was appointed prime minister for a second term following the [[2017 Albanian parliamentary election]]. Rama then won a third term following the [[2021 Albanian parliamentary election]] in which he defeated the Democratic Party candidate [[Lulzim Basha]] for the second time in a row. He is the only Albanian prime minister in history to have won three terms in a row. His party has won all six elections since 2013—three parliamentary ones and three local ones. He was one of the initiators of [[Open Balkan]], an economic zone of the Western Balkans countries intended to guarantee the "[[Four freedoms (European Union)|Four Freedoms]]".