Petrit Vasili is an Albanian politician. He was the chairman of Socialist Movement for Integration party and minister of health in the cabinet of Sali Berisha.
Vasili was born on 4 June 1958 in Tirana. Vasili graduated from the University of Tirana in medicine and completed a postgraduate specialization in Tirana (1984 â 1985) and a doctorate at the Istituto Superiore di Sanitàin Rome (1988 â 1991).
Vasili together with Ilir Meta would go on to create LSI on 6 September 2004. Following the disagreements between Ilir Meta and Fatos Nano. Vasili would become Deputy chair of LSI.
Following the 2009 parliamentary elections the LSI would form a coalition with the PD, where he became the Minister of Health.
As a result of the 2013 parliamentary elections, The LSI prior would withdraw from the coalition between PD-LSI and would join the PS coalition. Where he was elected as a member of the Assembly, In which he represented the Socialist Integration Movement; he held this mandate from September 30, 2013 to April 23, 2017. ÃÂ
He held another ministerial position as the head of the Ministry of Justice from 3 February to 22 May 2017.
On 5 May 2017, he replaced Ilir Meta as the chairman of the Socialist Integration Movement dueÃÂ to Meta's Presidential Candidacy. He held the position until 5 July, when he resigned; his successor was Monika Kryemadhi IlirÃÂ Meta's wife.
Today Vasili is a critic of Edi Rama and his government. He has argued that Edi Rama has made Albania a autocratic regime.