Albanian Fascist Party
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History
Establishment
On 25 March 1939, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave Albanian King Zog I an ultimatum demanding that he accept an Italian military protectorate over Albania.Template:Sfn Zog refused, and the Italians invaded on 7 April and deposed him.Template:Sfn Zog fled the country.Template:Sfn The Italians re-established the Albanian state as the protectorate of the Kingdom of Italy.Template:Sfn
On 11 April, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Galeazzo Ciano arranged for a group of well-known Albanians to "request" the formation of the Albanian Fascist Party (Template:Langx, or PFSh). On 23 April, Achille Starace, the Secretary of the National Fascist Party (Template:Langx, or PNF), accompanied by two Regia Marina warships, arrived in Albania to officially announce the establishment of the PFSh,Template:Sfn which was founded on 2 June.Template:Sfn However, it did not receive its constitution until 6 June, and was not presented with an organised directorate and central council until March 1940.Template:Sfn
Italian rule
The PFSh enacted laws that prevented Albanian Jews from joining, and excluded them from professions such as education.Template:Sfn Composed of ethnic Albanians and Italian colonists in Albania,Template:Sfn the party existed as a branch of the PNF, and members were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussolini.Template:Sfn All Albanians serving the Italian occupiers were required to join, and it became the only legal political party in the country.Template:Sfn
List of ministers
Ministers secretaries of the Albanian Fascist Party
- Tefik Mborja (1939–1941)
- Template:ILL (1941–1943)
- Template:Ill (1943)
Ministers secretaries of the Guard of Great Albania
- Maliq Bushati (1943)
- Ekrem Libohova (1943)
"Geraca" (rank insignia) of the Albanian Fascist Party
File:Gradat e Partise Fashiste Shqiptare 1939-1943.png
See also
Notes
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External links
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- 1939 establishments in Albania
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- Albanian nationalist parties
- Defunct political parties in Albania
- Far-right political parties
- Fascist parties
- Italian fascism
- Italian protectorate of Albania (1939–1943)
- Parties of one-party systems
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- Political parties established in 1939
- Politics of World War II
- Fascism in Albania