The Party for Justice, Integration and Unity (, or PDIU) is a nationalist, right-wing

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whose primary aim is the promotion of national issues. The party focuses on highlighting national issues, including Kosovo recognition, Albanians in

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, Presevo Valley and especially the Cham issue.

Formation and leadership

It was formed as a union of the Party for Justice and Integration and the Party for Justice and Unity. Shpëtim Idrizi is its current chairman, while Tahir Muhedini is now the honorary president.

PDIU involvement in 2011 general registration

In early October 2011, the Albanian government announced that a census would be conducted throughout the country, which would tally the exact number of ethnic minorities for the first time after 1989. However, after a proposal by the PDIU, the Albanian parliament changed the Census law, establishing a fine of $1,000 to every citizen that declares an ethnicity different from what was written down on his or her birth certificate. This applies even if the certificate was written during the communist era before 1989, where ethnic minorities were pressured to renounce their minority status. Because of these developments, organizations that represent five minority groups in Albania decided unanimously to boycott the upcoming census. On the other hand, the PDIU, claimed that this decision was a national victory, prohibiting that way a part of local citizens (according to PDIU also non-Greek) to register as Greeks.

Local elections

The PDIU placed candidates in the following places: *

Dibër County Dibër County (; sq, Qarku i Dibrës) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the c ...

:Komuna Kalaja e Dodës - Zyber Lita * Tiranë County : Njësia Bashkiake nr. 7 Tiranë - Krenar Alimehmeti :Bashkia Rrogozhinë - Ndriçim Dushku :Komuna

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- Engjëll Murrizi *

Durrës County Durrës County ( sq, Qarku i Durrësit), officially the County of Durrës ( sq, Qarku i Durrësit, italic=unset), is a county in the Northern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the smallest by area and the second most populous of the tw ...

:Bashkia Sukth - Sherif Fortuzi :Komuna Bubq, Krujë - Skënder Gjoni *

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:Bashkia

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- Shefki Çota :Komuna

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- Behar Kokla *

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:Bashkia Patos - Dilaver Kamberaj *

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:Komuna Markat - Ismail Myrtaj :Komuna Shushicë - Lulzim Petani In the Albanian local elections, 2011 the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity won a total of 59,499 votes throughout the country, and won the Librazhd, Sukth, and Rrogozhinë municipalities, plus Markat and Shushicë communes.

2015 local elections

In 2015 local elections PJIU won in three municipalities:

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, Rrogozhine and

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Parliamentary representation

2013 election

PDIU joined the Alliance for Employment, Prosperity and Integration ( sq, Aleanca për Punësim, Mirëqenie dhe Integrim) in the 2013 elections. The coalition was led by former Prime Minister

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. PDIU got 44,957 votes, 2.61% translated in 4 seats in the new parliament.Official results by Albanian CEC
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2017 parliamentary elections

In 2017, PDIU won three mandates of deputies: 2 in

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( Aqif Rakipi and

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). Shpetim Idrizi and

published videos in Facebook that their votes were stolen from another party, so the votes in Tirana were recounted, but they couldn't get their mandates either.

2021 parliamentary elections

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References

External links

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