Vito Kapo
Albanian politician (1922–2020)
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Vito Kapo (née Kondi, 11 September 1922 – 29 February 2020) was an Albanian politician who served as Minister of the Light Industry. She was the wife of Hysni Kapo, a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, and a sister of the Albanian World War II hero Alqi Kondi.[1] She was also the President of the Union of Albanian Women for nearly thirty years. Kapo was born in September 1922 in Zagori, Gjirokaster District.[2] She died in February 2020 in Tirana at the age of 97.
11 September 1922
Vito Kapo | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Light Industry | |
| In office 20 February 1987 – 7 July 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Esma Ulqinaku |
| Succeeded by | Jovan Bardhi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vito Kondi 11 September 1922 Zagori, Albania |
| Died | 29 February 2020 (aged 97) Tirana, Albania |
| Party | Party of Labour |
| Spouse | |
| Relations | Alqi Kondi (brother) Pirro Kondi (brother) |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Politician |
In her work as President of the Union of Albanian Women, she stated that the struggle the Party of Labour of Albania was waging for the emancipation of women was a "struggle for the triumph of revolutionary ideology of the working class, and the destruction of the reactionary bourgeois and petit bourgeois ideology."[3]
