World News for Students of English

03-05-2021 15:00

One week ago, 3.6 million people in Albania voted in the country’s parliamentary election. People chose 140 lawmakers for the next four years.

There were two main parties in the election, the ruling Socialist Party and the opposition Democratic Party. It seemed that the result would be very close. The Socialist Party wanted to help tourism, energy, farming, and modern technologies.

The leader of the Democratic party said the government made many serious crimes. The Democratic Party promised lower taxes and higher pay. The first results suggested that the Socialist Party won again.

This election is the 10^th election since communism ended in Albania. The election is free, but there are usually some problems. This year’s election is very important because the country wants to become a part of the EU, and the result could have a big impact on the process.

Difficult words: lawmaker (a person who makes and changes the laws of a country), tax (the money which people and companies pay and a government then spends the money on what is important to do), communism (a political system which says that what people make belongs to everyone and the state, not to them).

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