Politics and Government
As of 2009, there are 32 representatives of Tirana County with setas in the Parliament of Albania out of 140.
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“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
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