Fatos Nano#Second and third premierships

Fatos Nano was born in Tirana. His parents were Thanas Nano, a former director of Albanian Radio Television, and Maria Nano (née Shuteriqi), a government official from the same family as Dhimitër Shuteriqi. He was the only male child among female siblings in the family. He grew up in Hoxha Tahsim Street in East Tirana, attended and graduated from "Sami Frasheri" High School, reserved for the children of the nomenklatura.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 14, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 In the early years of adolescence, Nano was eager to learn foreign languages and used to play the guitar. In his second year of high school, he founded a rock group of which he was the lead singer; they played the music of the Beatles, strictly forbidden to the general public at the time. He graduated in Political Economy from the University of Tirana in 1974.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 45, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 After graduation in 1978, Nano worked in the management of the metallurgical mills of Elbasan until 1981.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 59, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 From 1981 until 1984, Nano served as an economist at Priska's Agricultural Farm in Tirana. In 1984, he was appointed as a researcher of socio-economic problems and reforms of market economies of Eastern Bloc countries in the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies in Tirana, where he worked until 1990.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 66, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 When Fatos Nano was working in the Marxist-Leninist Institute, he was under the observation of Nexhmije Hoxha, Enver Hoxha's wife. He was singled out for special favor.

He began his political career in December 1990, where he was first appointed as Secretary General of the Council of Ministers.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 93, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 In January 1991, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Prime Minister, still in the government of Adil Çarçani. The fall of the communist regimes in various Central and Eastern European countries forced President Ramiz Alia to gradually remove the old communist nomenklatura from power and government, so in the end of February 1991, Alia appointed Nano as Prime Minister of the transitional government with the purpose of organizing the first post-communist democratic elections in the country being held that year and to prepare the transition of the country towards liberal democracy and market economy.[http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1283 "Opinion"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072118/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1283 |date=2012-04-30 }}, with Blendi Fevziu, 4 February 2010. The Parliamentary Elections were held on 31 March 1991 where the Labour Party of Albania won the majority. Ramiz Alia appointed Nano for the second time as the new Prime Minister.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 101, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 However, his new government did not last longer than the first as one week after a General Strike organized by the independent unions forced him to resign a couple of weeks later.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 102-103, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 The 10th Congress of the Labor Party was held in June 1991, which took three important decisions; first it changed the name of Labour Party to Socialist Party, then it expelled all the members of the Politburo, and then it elected Nano as the new leader of the Socialist Party on 13 June 1991.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 108, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008

After the Democratic Party of Albania won the parliamentary election of 22 March 1992, the Parliament set up a commission in early 1993 to investigate the activity of Fatos Nano for alleged corruption and abuse with management of humanitarian aid given by the Italian state during the economic crisis that lasted from 1990 until early 1992.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 123, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 This was a sophisticated way to imprison Nano due to his strong opposition to the autocratic signs of President Sali Berisha and due to the inefficiency and inability of the government headed by Aleksander Meksi to accomplish effective economic reforms. Nano was right about this, because the government of the Democratic Party permitted the notorious Ponzi schemes (known as pyramid schemes in Albania) which resulted in the unrest of 1997 where the majority of Albanians lost their savings, instead of effective economical reforms.[http://www.transgallaxys.com/~beo/mlm/albania_org.htm "Albania under the Shadow of the Pyramids"], Carlos Elbirt, 1997. On 27 July 1993 the Albanian Parliament approved the request of the General Attorney, Alush Dragoshi[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 221, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 to take off the legislative immunity for Nano.{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2024}}[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 147, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008{{cite book|last1=Jeffries|first1=Ian|title=A Guide to the Economies in Transition|date=1996|isbn=978-0-415-13684-6|page=379|publisher=Routledge }} On 30 July 1993 Nano was arrested in the office of the Prosecutor,[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 149-158, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 and charged with "abuse of duty and the falsification of official documents in connection with Italian aid" following the use of a single vendor which overcharged and delivered foodstuffs which were unfit for consumption. On 3 April 1994, Nano was sentenced to twelve years in prison. A petition signed by 700 thousand people was sent to President Berisha to free Nano from prison.{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2024}}[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 193, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 Nano was considered a political prisoner by the Socialist Party of Albania,[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 175-176, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 Amnesty International, Human Right Watch (former Helsinki Watch), Inter-Parliamentary Union, and other groups, so he was let to be the chairman of it. To do his job from the prison, he used his ex-wife, Rexhina Nano, as intermediate to send directives to the party leadership, sometimes verbally, sometimes in written form.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 247, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2024}} After imprisonment, Nano decided that the party should be led by three Deputy Chairmen and one Secretary General to continue the party's political battle.

Since the rejection of the revised Albanian Constitution during the 1994 Referendum,[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 312, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 the foreign relations between Albania, the European Union and the United States began to deteriorate due to autocratic manners of President Berisha in the matters of the state, but they also were sceptical about the abilities of the leadership of the Socialist Party to govern the country, in case the Socialist Party were to win the Parliamentary Elections of 1996.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 356, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 The foreign diplomats also expressed concern toward the neutral stance the Socialist leadership (except Nano) held about Enver Hoxha and the positive stance toward Marxism-Leninism, which was implemented in the programme and the statute of the party by Servet Pellumbi. They called the socialist leadership (except Nano, who was not affiliated with Labor Party) as "dinosaurs from the old epoch".[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 408-409, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008

In 1996, Nano wrote a letter the 2nd Congress of the Party (Keshilli i Pergjithshem Drejtues), held on July–August 1996, to initiate a "Motion for Debate" to remove from the top positions of party anyone who was affiliated in any way with the Labour Party, because Nano thought that the top positions, i.e. the leadership of the party, should be held by intellectuals, like Rexhep Meidani, Pandeli Majko, Kastriot Islami, etc.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 389-393, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 This was an imperative because it was part of the ongoing process to reform the party in order to join the Socialist International and the Party of European Socialists. The "Motion for Debate", requested by Nano, also required, to implement the recommendations made by State Department, European Parliament and European Council, for the solution of the political and institutional crisis, as official stance of the Socialist Party, also to propose the Congress to remove Marxist and statist concepts from the party's statute and programme,[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 390-392, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 also to deny Vladimir Lenin and Comintern and rehabilitate Karl Kautsky and Second Internationale. The motion was supported by the majority of the socialist members and also by the civil society, and was approved as a consequence by the congress.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 411-413, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008{{Unreliable source?|date=November 2024}}

In 1997, the collapse of Ponzi schemes marked the beginning of an armed popular revolt against President Berisha, who was forced to resign in July 1997.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E1DB1339F931A25750C0A961958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/F/Frauds%20and%20Swindling "Anarchy of thugs menaces Albania"], Jane Perlez (The New York Times), 12 March 1997. Berisha called untimely parliamentary elections on 29 June and he decreed a general amnesty to all prisoners in March 1997; Nano too was released from prison.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 430-432, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008 Nano was found innocent by a court in Tirana for his alleged abuse of power and corruption in 1999.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 470, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008.

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The parliamentary elections of 29 June 1997 were an overwhelming victory for the Socialist Party of Albania.[http://www.keshilliministrave.al/?fq=brenda&gj=gj1&kid=59 "Qeveritë e formuara nga viti 1912 deri në 2005"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509142438/http://keshilliministrave.al/?fq=brenda&gj=gj1&kid=59 |date=2012-05-09 }}, Keshilli i Ministrave Nano was appointed prime minister by President Rexhep Meidani. The goal of Nano and the socialist government was to rebuild the ruined country, strengthen its economy and reconcile its people divided by political beliefs, but this was almost impossible with the destructive opposition led by former President Berisha. A coup d'état was attempted on 14 September 1998 by the leadership and the radical followers of the Democratic Party of Albania during the funeral of Azem Hajdari with the goal of taking power by force and murdering Nano.[http://www.aimpress.ch/dyn/trae/archive/data/199809/80919-009-trae-tir.htm "Troubled September in Albania"], AIM Press, 19 September 1998.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/172279.stm "Fatos Nano's address to nation"], BBC News, 15 September 1998. To avoid his murder by the angry mob, Nano decided to flee to the government residence in Pogradec.[http://tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=2290 "Opinion"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072107/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=2290 |date=2012-04-30 }}, with Blendi Fevziu, 4 November 2010. In the 1990s, Greece preferred and assisted Fatos Nano as Albanian leader due to him being Orthodox over Sali Berisha, a Muslim, as Nano was seen as being friendlier to Greek interests.{{cite book|last=Konidaris|first=Gerasimos|chapter=Examining policy responses to immigration in the light of interstate relations and foreign policy objectives: Greece and Albania|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Russell|editor2-last=Schwandner-Sievers|editor2-first=Stephanie |title=The new Albanian migration|year=2005|location=Brighton|publisher=Sussex Academic|isbn=9781903900789|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05Mw4-b9oN0C}} pp. 80–81. "Greece's favorite candidate in these elections was clearly MR. Nano. As emerges from the interview material, he –unlike Berisha- was held in high esteem by the Greek side. It should not escape notice that Nano was by origin Orthodox Christian from Southern Albania, whereas Berisha was a northern Muslim... Greece's favour towards Nano was clearly demonstrated in June, when he was allowed to speak to a crowd of Albanian citizens at a pre-election rally in one of Athens' central squares. The police did not interfere and no arrests of illegal immigrants were made." The government of Fatos Nano was viewed by Turkey as having a pro-Greek orientation and expressed some dissatisfaction, though during that time, it still maintained close military relations with Albania in rebuilding its armed forces and a military base.{{cite journal|last1=Lani|first1=Remzi|last2=Schmidt|first2=Fabian|title=Albanian foreign policy between geography and history|journal=The International Spectator|volume=33|issue=2|pages=79–103|year=1998|doi=10.1080/03932729808456809}} p. 90. "In a broader Balkan context, Turkey has always seen the Albanians as its natural allies in the Balkans. If the Greeks and Serbs have stood on one side of the scale, the Turks and the Albanians have stood on the other. Although some kind of dissatisfaction with Nano's government is felt in Ankara over what is seen in the Turkish capital as Tirana's pro-Greek orientation, Turkey continues to have close military ties with Tirana; indeed, it is playing an important role in the re-organization of the disintegrated Albanian army. Albania's most important military base, which was destroyed during the armed uprising last year, will be rebuilt by Turkey." During 1998, Albania's Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) membership was suspended and temporarily withdrawn by prime minister Fatos Nano, who viewed it as inhibiting Albania's European aspirations.{{cite book|last=Duijzings|first=Gerlachlus|title=Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo|year=2000|location=London|publisher=Hurst & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJRYkzl5YC4C&q=Islam+Albania+communist+persecution&pg=PA164|isbn=9781850654315}} p. 164.{{cite book|last=Clayer|first=Nathalie|chapter=God in the 'Land of the Mercedes.' The Religious Communities in Albania since 1990|editor1-last=Jordan|editor1-first=Peter|editor2-last=Kaser|editor2-first=Karl|editor3-last=Lukan|editor3-first=Walter|title=Albanien: Geographie - historische Anthropologie - Geschichte - Kultur - postkommunistische Transformation [Albania: Geography - Historical Anthropology - History - Culture - postcommunist transformation]|year=2003|location=Frankfurt am Main|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-631-39416-8|chapter-url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00189819/document}} pp. 14–24.{{cite book|last1=Mueller|first1=Karl|last2=Castillo|first2=Jasen|last3=Morgan|first3=Forrest|last4=Pegahi|first4=Negeen|last5=Rosen|first5=Brian|title=Striking first: preemptive and preventive attack in US national security policy|year=2006|location=Santa Monica|publisher=Rand Corporation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qg3JDl_zdqcC&q=OIC+Albania+membership&pg=PA233|isbn=9780833040954}} p. 233.{{cite web|url=https://www.oic-oci.org/home/?lan=en|title=Official website of the OIC|access-date=4 December 2020}} On 28 September 1998 Nano chose to resign and retired from political life.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 461-467, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008

After the Socialist Party won for the second time, in the parliamentary elections on 24 June 2001, Nano returned to politics again after 2 years of inactivity by starting the movement called Catharsis, with the goal to cripple the agreement between Rama and Meta to share the political power between them for the next 10 years.[http://tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=806 "Opinion"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072137/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=806 |date=2012-04-30 }}, with Blendi Fevziu, 24 September 2009.[http://albdreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/prapaskenat-e-rikthimit-ne-politike-te.html "Prapaskenat e rikthimit në politikë të Fatos Nanos"], Elisabeta Dosku, Tirana Observer, 20 October 2010[https://archive.today/20120919020556/http://www.revistaklan.com/material.php?id=111 "Apologjia e katarsisit"], Andi Bushati, Revista Klan, 13 May 2012

In early 2002, Nano unsuccessfully tried to run for President of Albania, but on 25 July 2002, he was appointed by newly elected president Alfred Moisiu as prime minister for the third time. Just days after retaking office in August 2002, Nano came under attack by leading Italian weekly L'Espresso, which accused him of having ties to international organized-crime groups, and having been involved in a cigarette-smuggling ring with Naples-based mobsters.[http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1100497.html "PM To Sue Italian Magazine Over Smuggling Allegations"], Jeffrey Donovan and Alban Bala, 9 August 2002. Nano sued the magazine in a court in Rome which ruled in favor of Nano. The court found the article to contain untrue information and speculations with the purpose of harming Nano during his term in office. The news magazine was ordered to pay Nano €3 million euros, and sentenced the magazine's director Daniela Hamaoi and the authors of the article Claudio Papayani, Dina Nasecti and Giuseppe Roli with 18 months in jail for groundlessly connecting Nano to the crime and mafia in Albania.[http://www.ekonomia-ks.com/?page=1,5,2506 "Tre milionë euro nga kontesti gjyqësor për Nanon"], Jeffrey Donovan and Alban Bala, 9 August 2002.[http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=l9231&PHPSESSID=aq5pgamhi01ii8pv9tjdq51606 "Fatos Nano to buy hotels in Ohrid with compensation paid by weekly newspaper"], FOCUS Information Agency, 26 January 2010[http://www.novamakedonija.com.mk/NewsDetal.asp?vest=126101036499&id=11&setIzdanie=21893 "Фатос Нано ќе добие три милиони евра отштета од италијански неделник"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621102940/http://www.novamakedonija.com.mk/NewsDetal.asp?vest=126101036499&id=11&setIzdanie=21893 |date=2015-06-21 }}, Нова Македонија, 21 January 2010[http://lajme.parajsa.com/Politike/id_146915/ "Nano: Fitova gjyqin me L'Espresso, burg gazetarëve"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621082256/http://lajme.parajsa.com/Politike/id_146915/ |date=2015-06-21 }}, Parajsa.com, Aristir Lumezi, 23 January 2010

In the winter of 2004, a number of protests with over 20,000 people were organized by the opposition led by Sali Berisha demanding Nano to resign as prime minister, which came known as the "Nano Go Away" Movement.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3509877.stm "Thousands join Albania protests"] BBC News, 21 February 2004 In 2004, the civil society group Mjaft! protested in front of Nano's office against the alleged import of waste from Italy to Albania.[http://www.shqiptarja.com/analiza/2709/fatos-nano-nuk-e-mban-dot-me-ne-duar-cadren-e-tij-78882.html "Fatos Nano nuk e mban dot më në duar çadrën e tij"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506010039/http://www.shqiptarja.com/analiza/2709/fatos-nano-nuk-e-mban-dot-me-ne-duar-cadren-e-tij-78882.html |date=2012-05-06 }} Shqiptarja.com, Andi Bushati, 3 May 2012

On 3 July 2005, the Socialist Party lost the elections and its majority in parliament. Nano resigned as prime minister and also as the chairman of the Socialist Party on 1 September 2005. Since then, he has retired from public and political life. He rarely appears for interviews on some political talk shows.[http://tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1283 "Opinion"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072118/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1283 |date=2012-04-30 }}, with Blendi Fevziu, 4 February 2010.[http://tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1306 "Opinion"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072126/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1306 |date=2012-04-30 }}, with Blendi Fevziu, 11 February 2010.

In early 2007, Nano met with Sali Berisha to counter appeals from the Socialist Party to boycott the 2007 local government elections, which would have triggered untimely parliamentary elections. Nano was elected candidate for President in the Presidential Elections of 2007 by the request of 20 Socialist MPs.[http://www.parlament.al/web/Kushtetuta_e_Republikes_se_Shqiperise_e_perditesuar_1150_1.php "Constitution of Albania"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126205544/http://www.parlament.al/web/Kushtetuta_e_Republikes_se_Shqiperise_e_perditesuar_1150_1.php |date=2011-11-26 }}, Compulsory condition by the article 87 of the Constitution. Most members of the opposition coalition led by the Socialist Party did not support him, however, and choose to boycott this Presidential Election. Nano received only three votes, while Bamir Topi of the Democratic Party won 75 votes. Topi did not receive enough votes to be elected, however.[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/08/europe/EU-POL-Albania-Presidential-Election.php "Albanian parliament set to vote for new president"], Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 8 July 2007.[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/09/europe/EU-POL-Albania-Presidential-Election.php "Albania edges toward elections after presidential vote fails"], Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 9 July 2007. The second round of voting was held on 10 July. However, the parliament still failed to elect a president, with Nano getting five votes and Topi receiving 74. Continued failure to elect a president would have resulted in an early parliamentary election,[http://www.birn.eu.com/en/92/15/3556/ "Standoff in Parliamentary Ballot to Pick New Albanian President"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713200227/http://www.birn.eu.com/en/92/15/3556/ |date=2007-07-13 }}, birn.eu.com, 11 July 2007. but on 20 July, Topi was elected.[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/24/europe/EU-POL-Albania-New-President.php "Albania's new president Bamir Topi sworn in"], Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), 24 July 2007. In late August, it appeared likely that Nano would found a new political party.[http://www.dtt-net.com/en/index.php?page=view-article&article=2601 "Albania's ex-PM aiming a political comeback"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005050/http://www.dtt-net.com/en/index.php?page=view-article&article=2601 |date=2007-09-27 }}, dtt-net.com, 30 August 2007, but he didn't.[http://www.birn.eu.com/en/104/15/4639/ "Albania's Ex-PM Nano Sets up New Group"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129033142/http://birn.eu.com/en/104/15/4639 |date=2011-01-29 }}, birn.eu.com, 20 September 2007. Nano tried again to run for president in 2012, but he did not even qualify for candidacy because the leaders parties in Parliament obstructed their respective MPs to elect him as a candidate.

After the election of President of Albania in June 2012, Nano formed a movement called "Nano Movement for the victory of socialist" with the goal of retaking the leadership of the Socialist Party. Nano's past unpopularity due to his backroom deals with the equally unpopular former Prime Minister Sali Berisha have tainted his credentials, and Edi Rama's popular judicial, administrative and economic reforms ensure that the latter maintains his position as prime minister and leader of the Socialist Party in Albania.[http://www.top-channel.tv/artikull.php?id=236511&ref=fp “Lëvizja Nano për fitoren e socialistëve”] Top Channel 06.2012[http://www.panorama.com.al/2012/06/13/levizja-nano-nisme-statutore-per-largimin-e-rames-nano-di-te-munde-berishen/ Lëvizja Nano: Nismë statutore për largimin e Ramës] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405102429/http://www.panorama.com.al/2012/06/13/levizja-nano-nisme-statutore-per-largimin-e-rames-nano-di-te-munde-berishen/ |date=2013-04-05 }} Gazeta Panorama 06.2012

The early life of Nano is narrated by the only biographical book for him in the Albanian language "Të jetosh kohën", written by his ex-wife Rexhina Nano and published in early 2008[https://books.google.com/books?id=OwbatgAACAAJ&q=rexhina+nano "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008. which is extensively used as reference for the information provided in this article, also by Nano himself in his interview to journalist Blendi Fevziu in Opinion talk show during two episodes aired on TV Klan ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072118/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1283 Episode 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430072126/http://www.tvklan.al/emisioni.php?id=1306 Episode 2]).

Nano has a degree in political economy and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tirana.[http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50 "Të jetosh kohën"], Rexhina Nano, page 45, Botimet DUDAJ, 2008.

He has published three books:[http://www.google.com/search?hl=it&tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=inauthor:fatos+inauthor:nano&num=10 Google Books]

• Socialimperializmi sovjetik në ekonominë kapitaliste botërore (1987)
• Die Sowjetunion: ein kapitalistisches, imperialistisches Land (1988)
• Dosja Nano (1994)

Nano was elected as a member of parliament from the districts of Tirana in 1991, Kuçovë in 1992, Tepelenë in 1997 and 2001, and Sarandë in 2005. In 2012, he was elected an Honorary Member by the Socialist Party.

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• {{cite book | first = Rexhina | last = Nano | title = Te Jetosh Kohen | publisher = Botime DUDAJ | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-99943-0-045-7}} [http://www.bksh.al/adlib/scripts/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=catalo&OPAC_URL=/adlib/beginner/index_al.html&LANGUAGE=1&%250=39569&LIMIT=50]
• [http://www.esiweb.org/index.php?lang=en&id=311&film_ID=3&slide_ID=10 Return to Europe: Fatos Nano]

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