The only female founder member of the Communist Party of Albania, she was one of the first group of women elected to parliament in 1945.

After graduating from the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute in Tirana,[2] she won a state scholarship to study in Florence.

[1] In August 1944 she murdered fellow politburo member Mustafa Gjinishi under orders from Yugoslavian communists after he had made an agreement with the anti-communist Balli Kombëtar.

At a meeting of the Communist Party's central committee in 1948, Gega was accused of sympathising with separatists in northern Albania, political terror and sectarianism.

[1] This was a result of her opposition to eliminating the units that had operated in the area following the end of World War II.