The departure of five of the PS’s prominent figures from its governing council has become the subject of heated discussions and polemics between the PS and the PD. While the PD’s propaganda emphasizes division within the PS, the latter responds with slogans typical of the PPSH, claiming that “party unity” is the progressive element within the PS. Until now, the PD’s propaganda had been giving prominence to the eurosocialists and P. Majko, regarding them as the progressive wing of the PS, while in the pages of its press, in the magazine, Zeneli Loshi, without mentioning the former RTSH director Kumb... [lower part of the text cut off] the name of Marx from the program, since this can also be done simply for reasons of political pragmatism, just like the slogans the PS constantly puts forward about “renewal,” “distancing,” or “reform.” The PS resembles a red detachment which, under today’s conditions, compelled by factors... [text cut off at the bottom edge] PS and the PD. While the PD’s propaganda emphasizes divisions the PPSH, such as “unity in our ranks is unbreakable,” and so on. Seeking to exploit the changes made to the PS’s governing council for its own purposes, the PD is presenting the five people removed from the leadership before public opinion as “reformers,” as the PS’s “liberal wing,” struck down by the conservatives, as “intellectuals,” and so forth. This is intended to portray the successor to the PPSH as incapable of renewal and dominated by nostalgic elements. However, the assessments made by the PD, both regarding developments within the PS and concerning “the five,” simply do not correspond to reality. First, not only can the removal from the leadership of Zeneli, Lloshi, Kumbaro, Shahollari, and Lakrori not be considered the result of a struggle between the reformist and conservative wings of the PS, but neither can the aforementioned names be said to represent the reformist wing of the PS. The PD used to give prominence to the Eurosocialists and P. Majko, considering them the progressive wing of the PS, while in its own press people such as Zeneli and Lloshi—not to mention Kumbaro, the former director of RTSH—were described in the most degrading terms, portrayed as representatives of Enverism, agents of Greece, sons of criminals, and so on. For this reason, the deification now being bestowed on them, dressing them in liberal robes solely because they suffered a fall from the PS’s upper hierarchy, sounds somewhat absurd. If we were to speak of a “reformist” or “progressive wing,” we would need at least some evidence that these five, or any one of them, or others from within the PS, had presented a platform or at least expressed opposition somewhere to the conservative line followed by their party. But, unfortunately, no such things exist. Where, then, can they be found? On what basis can you label Zeneli or Kumbaro “liberals”? The fact that someone within the PS wants to be removed cannot be used as a convincing argument removed cannot be used as a convincing argument from the list of those who have becoming and the PD. ...

Press statement by the PRSH spokesperson On the afternoon of October 24, 1995, at around 16:00, two employees of the Mat Police Commissariat struck the chairman of the PR branch in Mat, Mr. Agron Elezi, knocking him to the ground unconscious. According to the account given by the police officers to their superiors, the PR representative for Mat was struck on the head, behind the ear, with a hard object and, after falling, was kicked in the chest. As a result of the assault, according to the personal medical record, the injured man lost consciousness and awareness and suffered bleeding from his left ear. Mr. Elezi, while intoxicated, attempted to snatch a pistol from one of the police officers and, after losing his balance, fell and hit his head on the sidewalk. A team urgently sent by the PRSH Central Headquarters to the scene, after examining the injured man and hearing from the doctor and witnesses, determined that the account given by the two police officers contradicted reality. On the morning of October 24, police officer Ahmet Lata and policeman Agron Kadiu, who were drinking in a bar near the office of the PR branch in Burrel, insulted and threatened the chairman of the PR for the Mat district, Mr. Agron Elezi, and then struck him on the head. Mr. Elezi immediately lost consciousness and was then taken to hospital by passers-by in a state of anterograde amnesia (loss of consciousness). According to the surgeon at Burrel Hospital, Mr. Xhelal Dezhgiu, the chairman of the after he fell, he blow, according to the medical file, the injured man lost consciousness, became unconscious, suffered bleeding from his left ear, damage to the eardrum, and a fracture of the skull. His health remains critical. Furthermore, according to the notes in the patient’s file by the doctors—surgeon Xhelal Dezhgiu, neurologist Mehmet Nurid, and otorhinolaryngologist Petrit Stafa—there is no indication that Agron Elezi was drunk at the time he was struck. All of this, as well as the witnesses’ statements, proves the guilt of the two police officers. The Prosecutor’s Office has been notified of the act, and a report is being prepared to initiate criminal proceedings against those responsible. Condemning this vandalistic act against the chairman of the PR in Mat, the PRSH spokesperson welcomes the interest shown by the leaders of the Ministry of the Interior and their readiness to send an investigative team to examine the incident, and calls for the cause that led to this action to be uncovered and for those responsible to be punished.

The Socialist Party has emerged with stronger ranks than ever after the extraordinary conference in Tirana. Nano has called for the second session of the PPS Congress to be held in Bënçë, so that the delegates can be ever closer to reality. The PS’s new strategy for the upcoming elections was revealed by the events of recent days in Lushnjë. The Socialists are paying their people to shut the doors of halls, take to the streets, and clash with the police. In this way, Berisha’s anti-people regime will be exposed in the eyes of the electorate that voted for the democratic forces on March 22, 1992. Winter has begun, and the lights still have not gone out. Capitalism, which only oppresses and exploits (see Comrade Fatos’s open letter), is doing everything it can to make people work 20 hours a day—and night. Tomorrow is Friday. It was the same five years ago. Nothing changes under this anti-people regime. If the PS comes to power, tomorrow could be Sunday; indeed, half the day could be Sunday and the other half Tuesday.

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