L ong THE most benighted and quarrelsome part of Europe, the Balkans may have a new leading light. Most unusually he is the prime minister of Albania, a strapping 58-year-old former basketballer cum modern artist, Edi Rama. Last month his Socialist Party trounced the tattered ragbag of opposition groups to win all but a handful of the country’s 61 mayoralties and councils. So he is likely to win the next general election, due in 2025, his fourth victory in a row, and thus to rule until 2029 what was once the region’s most miserable outpost. In power since 2013, Mr Rama is already the longest-serving current head of a Balkan government. In 2000 he emerged as a dynamic and colourful mayor of Albania’s capital, Tirana. Since 2005 he has headed his party. Now he can claim to be a Balkan star, even a calming influence in a still fragile region: witness the ructions next door in Kosovo, where the Serb minority has been railing against the ethnic Albanian majority. Mr Rama refuses to gee up his cousins, and urges the West to handle Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, sensitively.
巴尔干可能是欧洲最持久和吵架的部分，可能有了新的领先灯。最不寻常的是，他是阿尔巴尼亚总理，他是一名58岁的前篮球运动员兼现代艺术家爱德·拉玛（Edi Rama）。上个月，他的社会党击败了反对派团体的破烂不堪，赢得了该国61名市长和理事会的少数人。因此，他很可能会赢得下届大选，即2025年，他连续第四场胜利，因此要统治到2029年，曾经是该地区最悲惨的前哨基地。自2013年以来，拉玛先生已经是巴尔干政府服务时间最长的负责人。2000年，他成为了阿尔巴尼亚首都提拉娜（Tirana）的动态而丰富多彩的市长。自2005年以来，他一直领导他的聚会。现在，他可以声称自己是巴尔干的明星，甚至在仍然脆弱的地区也是一种平静的影响：见证了科索沃的隔壁的赛车，塞族少数民族一直在反对阿尔巴尼亚族裔的多数。拉玛先生拒绝加强堂兄，并敦促西方敏感地处理塞尔维亚总统亚历山大·沃西奇（Aleksandar Vucic）。
