 Frashëri agreed to serve as regent as well as head the council.The leadership of the council was originally designed to rotate, but Lef Nosi declined for health reasons, and Anton Harapi argued that as a Catholic monk, he could accept no position in which he would be forced to sanction the death penalty.When the Partisans declared victory in Albania, the Germans evacuated, taking Mehdi Frashëri with them.