**Edi Rama secured a fourth consecutive term as Albania’s prime minister after his Socialist Party won 83 of 140 seats in the May 2025 parliamentary elections, with the new government confirmed in September 2025.** This outcome extended his mandate well into the current parliamentary term, which runs until elections scheduled no later than June 2029. As of early November 2026, Rama remains in office amid student-led protests that escalated in mid-October over a proposed Kushner-linked coastal resort, education funding, living costs, and corruption concerns. He has rejected resignation demands, framing the unrest as a threat to Albania’s EU accession progress rather than his government’s stability, while offering limited economic concessions and dialogue. The ruling party’s parliamentary majority, combined with the absence of any scheduled national vote or no-confidence mechanism capable of removing him before year-end, underpins trader expectations that he will complete 2026 in office. Ongoing opposition disruptions and institutional responses have not altered this positioning.