Kristina Nano elected as the new Chair of LRE!

On the calendar, it is only a date, in our shared memory, it is an event that reaffirms why we began.

On 25 October 2025, the Congress of LRE gathered to do two things that, in the deeper sense, are one and the same, to mark the fifth anniversary of Lëvizja Rinisje and to elect its new Chair.

A calm warmth held the hall.

The flags were not mere backdrops, they framed the moment.

On the table lay not promises, but blank pages waiting to be inscribed with a pledge.

By the evening of 25 October 2025, with an overwhelming majority, the members of LRE entrusted the leadership of Lëvizja Rinisje to Kristina Nano.

Thus begins the new era of LRE.

Five years ago, word turned into community; today the community gives word a new form.

This transition of leadership, from Arian Galdini to Kristina Nano, was not an entry in a protocol, it was a proof of what Hannah Arendt called the right to begin, the natality of politics, the capacity to bring into the world something that has never existed before.

Rinisja (Renewal) does not interrupt continuity, it gives it a new step.

Hence the signs of the day speak more truthfully than any headline, the presence of a new generation not as ornament but as responsibility, the passing of the pledge not as a phase but as a mature covenant, a renewal of leadership that does not forgo the conduct of principles.

Kristina Nano is the figure who makes this passage feel natural.

She arrives with a doctorate in Leadership from James Madison University in the United States, where the architecture of freedom is taught as a discipline of mind and heart rather than a phrase.

There one absorbs a fundamental truth of constitutional thought, strong institutions are built upon wise constraints, and sound leadership abides by inner measures.

Earlier, as an economist with outstanding results (bachelor’s and research master’s in Turkey), she learned to read numbers without forgetting the human person, to see the scales of the market without losing the taste of justice.

These two shores, knowledge and service, meet in Kristina without colliding, competence that does not chill the heart, kindness that does not dilute the standard.

The art of leadership, as James MacGregor Burns has noted, is not merely the ability to project a vision but the relationship that raises others while it raises the leader.

Robert Greenleaf named it service, to walk ahead only insofar as one opens paths for others.

Ronald Heifetz added the dimension of adaptation, to remain faithful to purpose while adjusting the means when circumstances demand it.

Within this triad, Kristina enters as measure, she evokes youth without exploiting it, understands the risk of easy words, and prefers work that is weighed to noise that is counted.

The Congress of the fifth anniversary offered a chance to look back without turning back.

They were years of training in the dark, in mud, in quiet, yet the season of patience made possible the season of work.

LRE taught itself, and us, that parenting is a public way of thinking, to imagine policy through the eyes of children, to measure every service by the honesty of home.

Standing by one another became a daily ethos, not leaving a person alone, even when we disagree, even when it costs us to stay close.

Neoalbanianism did not remain a book on a shelf, it became the grammar of life, language kept clean out of respect, memory kept alive as a compass, culture used as working capital rather than ceremonial décor.

These do not fade with rotations, they become a score whose rhythm a good orchestra holds, even as the conductor changes.

The passage from the Founding Chair to the new Chair shows that LRE understands the danger of chair-centrism as much as the danger of turning the founder into a museum piece, neither the cult of office nor the cult of yesterday’s film.

The founder’s role keeps the compass, the chair’s role keeps the tempo, one is the living memory of why we set out, the other the lucid mind of how we continue.

They are not two suns, they are the sun and the morning star, painting the same dawn.

This symmetry restrains the surge of ego and gives space to the institution of conscience.

In the language of economics, Kristina brings an emphasis public life has lacked, morality as the infrastructure of the market.

Healthy profit springs from service, the dignity of work is the only currency that does not devalue in crises, trust is the norm that lowers transaction costs and accelerates development.

And this is not mere flourish, it is method. Where the word is honoured, where favouritism is excluded, and where rule is lived as a steady rhythm rather than recited as a dry lesson, prosperity endures.

There is a deeper meaning in this day.

We, who have often spoken of education as the growth of the mind and the state as measured care, see in Kristina a true bridge, a student of leadership in a serious academic culture, an economist forged by high demands, a young woman who makes equality appear as competence before it sounds like a slogan.

This echoes an old Albanian hope, a mind open to the world and a heart faithful to the homeland.

Where these two horizons meet, politics no longer exhausts, it begins to nourish.

For LRE, this moment is not a coronation but the threshold of a house whose foundations we have just laid.

A threshold is neither inside nor outside, it is the place where the pledge becomes visible.

There steps today Kristina Nano, at the front line to keep alive the ecology of truth, the quiet of language, the rhythm of goodness.

We no longer need podiums that confuse free speech with free insult, nor studios that entertain cynicism, we need laboratories of maturity where tomorrow is prepared with care.

Five years after its genesis, the movement sees itself as a school of character, a place where experience does not drown you, it grows you, where critique does not knock you down, it clarifies you, where success does not intoxicate, it obliges.

That school, today, is led by a young woman with deep reserves, Kristina Nano, not a successful photograph, but a new page.

LRE enters an era where education grows minds, the economy grows dignity, the state grows trust.

Not through instant miracles, but through the method of doing things well.

At day’s end, trust again keeps the word.

We do not prevail because our voices grow louder, we prevail because the weight of the word remains, even when the lights go out.

The election of Kristina Nano, by an overwhelming majority, is not merely news, it is a geometry of hope, a community that knows its melody and hands the baton to a conductor who knows the music does not belong to the one who leads, but to those who make it together.

This is the new era that begins for LRE - Rinisja.

And when eras begin with light, the horizon does not promise miracles, it promises the quiet of things done well.