142 Interdisiplinary Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 4, no. 3, 2017 Msc. Eldi SHERIFI1 THE ROLE OF THE ALBANIAN POLITICAL ELITE IN ORGANIZING THE ASSEMBLIES 1878 TO 19202 Abstract Assemblies, congresses, national assemblies, and constitutional assemblies are forms of political organization and representation by politicians who claim to represent the people. The political theories of institutions classify these forms of organization as elected assemblies, appointed assemblies and assemblies. However, each country has its own historic tradition of organization. In France, assemblies had the mandate of representing the people and were considered to be people’s substitutes. Albanians also have tradition of organizing assemblies even when Albania was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The Monastery Congress on November 14, 1908, and the Assembly of Dibra on July 12, 1909, were held with participants from all the Albanian vilayets and entered our national history as events of historical and institutional character. The power of Albanian national political and institutional conscience culminated with the Historical Assembly of Vlora on November 28, 1912, where Ismail Qemali proclaimed Albania alone and indifferent. On December 25, 1918, Mehmet Konica and Mufti Libohova organized the Durrës Assembly. The political and juridical opinion of the Albanian political elite was exalted with the Congress of Lushnja on 21 January 1920, when the institution of the state president was established as a collective body with the name of the High Council, with the mayor Aqif Pasha Elbasan. Key words: National Council, Assembly, National Assembly, Nulla Council 1 Tirana Business University;
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