Unity for Human Rights Party

{{Infobox political party

| country = Albania

| name = Unity for Human Rights Party

| native_name = {{langx|sq|Partia Bashkimi për të Drejtat e Njeriut}}
{{langx|el|Κόμμα Ένωσης Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων}}

| logo = PBDNj logo.png

| foundation = 1992

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|

|Greek minority interests{{cite web|url=http://parties-and-elections.eu/albania.html|title=Albania|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2017|website=Parties and Elections in Europe}}

|Social liberalism{{cite journal|title=The Albanian Electoral Systems since 1990|journal=Albanian Elections Observatory Brief|date=19 April 2013|issue=1|url=http://www.eliamep.gr/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bn1.pdf|access-date=2 July 2013}}

|Civic nationalism

|Pro-Europeanism}}

| position = Centre

| colorcode = {{party color|Unity for Human Rights Party}}

| international =

| europarl = European People's Party Group{{efn|Fredis Beleris}}

| national = Bashkë Fitojmë
Alliance for a Great Albania

| colours = Blue, yellow and white

| headquarters = Sarandë

| website = https://pbdnj.com/

| seats1_title = Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|140|hex={{party color|Unity for Human Rights Party}}}}

| seats2_title = Municipalities

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|61|hex={{party color|Unity for Human Rights Party}}}}

}}

The Unity for Human Rights Party ({{langx|sq|Partia Bashkimi për të Drejtat e Njeriut}}, {{langx|el|Κόμμα Ένωσης Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων}}) is a social-liberal political party in Albania supporting the Greek minority. Founded in 1992, it represents Albania's minorities and is mainly related to the Greek minority, and is the political continuation of Omonoia. It works with Omonoia, MEGA and other Greek parties in Albania at national elections, under a Greek bloc.{{cite book|last=Knowlton|first=Marylee|title=Albania|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|year=2005|url=https://archive.org/details/albania00know|url-access=registration|quote=PBDNJ minority groups.|access-date=27 September 2011|page=[https://archive.org/details/albania00know/page/n11 146]|isbn=9780761418528 }} The party is currently led by Vangjel Dule, who holds the party's only seat in Parliament.[http://cec.org.al/2004/legjislacion/Legjislacion2009/Vendime/VENDIM%20602/Lidhja%202.pdf Official Results of the Albanian national elections of 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222011503/http://cec.org.al/2004/legjislacion/Legjislacion2009/Vendime/VENDIM%20602/Lidhja%202.pdf |date=December 22, 2009 }} Central Election Committee

History

The party first contested national elections in 1992, when it received 2.7% of the national vote and won two seats.Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp139–142 {{ISBN|9783832956097}} The 1996 elections saw the party increase its share of the vote to 4%, winning three seats. Although the party's vote share dropped to 3.2% in the early elections in 1997, it gained an additional MP, winning four seats. However, another drop in the party's support in the 2001 elections saw it reduced to three seats. Despite again increasing its vote share to 4.1% in the 2005 elections, the party lost another MP as it was reduced to two seats. The 2009 elections saw the party reduced to one seat.Nohlen & Stöver, p2047

In the 2011 local elections the party lost its councillors in Gjirokastër and Delvinë and one of its two municipal seats in Sarandë,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2011/html_lshumemerore/110919_-_DTI_-_lista_keshill_2011.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705092257/http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2011/html_lshumemerore/110919_-_DTI_-_lista_keshill_2011.htm|url-status=dead|title=Municipal seats 2011|archive-date=July 5, 2015}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cec.org.al/images/stories/zgjedhje-vendore/2007/rezultate_2007/rezultate%20perfundimtare_pdf/keshill.pdf|title=Municipal seats 2007}} maintained its seat Shkodër and gained one of the seats in Korçë in addition to the mayoralty in nine communes. In the 2013 parliamentary elections it retained its single seat, running as part of the Alliance for a European Albania headed by the Socialist Party.

In the 2015 local elections the party failed to win any mayoralties, losing seats to other Greek parties such as MEGA/EEM, as well as the Socialist Party.[http://www.cityfm.al/2015/06/shpallen-fituesit-ne-jug-pbdnj-humb-kudo/]{{dead link|date=July 2019}}

In the parliamentary elections of 2017 it joined forces with the Democratic Party and fielded two candidates: the party leader Vangjel Dule in Vlorë and one in Korçë County,[https://rm.coe.int/4th-op-albania-en-/168093903b Fourth Opinion on Albania - adopted on 11 October 2018]. Council of Europe, p. 33 with the former being elected.[https://www.cnn.gr/news/kosmos/story/86647/ekloges-alvania-aytodynamia-rama-deixnoyn-ta-prota-apotelesmata Εκλογές Αλβανία: Αυτοδυναμία Ράμα δείχνουν τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα.] It continued its alliance with the Democratic Party in the 2021 parliamentary elections, in which it won a single seat on the Democratic Party's list.