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The National Front has chapters in Kosovo, led by Sylejman Daka & in North Macedonia, led by Vebi Xhemaili.

 

Midhat Frashëri believed that Albanian provinces under the Ottoman Empire were unfairly partitioned during [[World War I]] amongst Yugoslavia and Greece.<ref>{{cite web|title=Balli Kombëtar: The Ten-Point Programme |author=Robert Elsie |url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1915_2.html |access-date=17 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717004908/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1915_2.html |archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> After [[World War II]], Midhat Frashëri began advocating for a [[Greater Albania]]. When Midhat Frashëri formed the Balli Kombëtar, it was based on his nationalist ideas and the old ideologies of [[Abdyl Frashëri]], [[Ymer Prizreni]] and [[Isa Boletini]]. The works of [[Franz Nopcsa]], [[Johann Georg von Hahn]] and [[Milan Šufflay]], helped strengthen the nationalists' cause.<ref>{{cite web|title=Milan von Šufflay: Mediaeval Albania|author=Robert Elsie|url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1912_4.html|access-date=16 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811035740/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1912_4.html|archive-date=11 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Baron Franz Nopcsa|author=Robert Elsie|url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1913_9.html|access-date=16 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029002602/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1913_9.html|archive-date=29 October 2011}}</ref> The Balli Kombëtar believed that Albanians were "Aryans of Illyrian heritage".<ref name="Cyprian Blamires">{{cite book|author=Cyprian Blamires|title=World Fascism: A-K|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA31|year=2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-940-9|pages=31–32}}</ref> This helped gaining support by the Nazis.<ref name="Cyprian Blamires"/> The party had also a strong [[Agrarian socialism|agrarian socialist]] wing, which gained the leadership of the party after the war with its leader [[Abas Ermenji|Abaz Ermenji]], and also Zef Pali, Halil Maçi and [[Vasil Andoni]].<ref name="sot.com.al">{{Cite web|url=https://sot.com.al/dossier-politike/cia-zbardh-p%C3%ABr%C3%A7arjet-brenda-ballit-komb%C3%ABtar-hasan-dosti-ishte-njeri-i-d%C3%ABshtuar-p%C3%ABr|title=CIA zbardh përçarjet brenda Ballit Kombëtar, Hasan Dosti ishte njeri i dështuar për amerikanët, ja përplasjet mes konservatorëve dhe socialistëve, roli i dyshimtë i Ali Këlcyrës dhe lëvizjet e Abaz Kupit|date=5 July 2016|website=Agjencia e Lajmeve SOT NEWS|language=en}}</ref>