As the Albanian partisan resistance of 1940-1944 came to a close, a provisional

Provisional government

A provisional government is an emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a very large government. The early provisional governments were created to prepare for the return of royal rule...

 Democratic Government of Albania was established on October 20, 1944 by a second meeting of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council. It fully took power after the liberation of the country from German

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 forces on November 28. Its interim Prime Minister was General Secretary Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

 of the Communist Party of Albania. The interim government was to be in existence until the holding of democratic elections and the convening of a Constituent Assembly. Elections for a new Republic were held

Albanian parliamentary election, 1945

Parliamentary elections were held in Albania on 2 December 1945. The Democratic Front was the only organisation allowed to nominate candidates, and won all 82 seats...

 on December 2, 1945, and on January 11, 1946 the People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed.

External Links

• Declaration of the Democratic Government of Albania at the 2nd Meeting of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council of Albania
• Speech to the Constituent Assembly on the Presentation of the Resignation of the Government For more info please follow the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Albania