PM says he has numbers to form government; feuding over ballots EPA By Benet Koleka - Reuters TIRANA – Albania’s opposition Socialist Party said yesterday it was premature for any party to claim victory ahead of the final results of the country’s election the ruling Democratic Party has already claimed it has won. Prime Minister Sali Berisha said he would wait for the Central Election Commission to issue the final results, but he could form a government after the vote which produced the tightest race since Albania toppled communism in 1990. International monitors said the elections failed to meet the international standards Albania wanted to convince the EU and the US it had matured democratically. “We will wait patiently because we owe it to the citizens of this country who made the Socialist party the first political force...
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