the Party of Labor of Albania PPSh (Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë) was formed.
Kapo was referred to as "number three" in the state and from then on was only in the Politburo and in the Secretariat of the Central Committee, which he had been a member of since the Party Congress from 1956 belonged.
Ramiz Alia, Hoxha's successor after his death, also left the government: he became chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the People's Assembly (Kuvendi Popullor).
Gogo Nushi lost the role of Deputy Chairman but remained Minister of Trade and Communications.
The break with Moscow and the termination of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 occurred during the government's time.