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Farmers' property titles are rejected Page 2

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The electoral bill in Arbnori's hands There is a strong possibility that the electoral bill drafted by Teta and Celiuk will be discussed within the month. According to the person who submitted it to the leadership of the Assembly, the bill must be discussed next week to decide whether it will be included in the deputies' work program. Deputy Teta says that with the proposed work program expiring this weekend (the program runs until 15 December), it is up to the leadership to discuss the new program. Then it will be the signatories' turn. Among these signatories are also Gjinushi, Dokle, and Vukaj, and these deputies, who are members of the leadership, according to Teta, will insist that the bill be included in the program for the last two weeks of 1995. Afterwards, the draft program, in accordance with parliamentary rules, will be submitted to all deputies for approval. “There almost all the signatories of the draft will speak,” says Teta, “and there are more than twenty of them. All of them will insist that the additions to the electoral law envisaged in this draft be discussed before the New Year.” Meanwhile, the facts in the Assembly are different. Shefet Zani, who is responsible for preparing Assembly sessions, says that for the bill to be discussed within December, the Speaker of Parliament, Arbnori, must have it in hand. The bill is now, in fact, in Arbnori's hands, since it has been officially registered. According to Zani, the December schedule has already been drawn up, and for a place to be found for the Teta-Celiuk proposal, the Speaker of the People's Assembly must decide. In this context, everything remains to be seen. Apparently, the bill providing additions and technical votes, conceived by the opposition and proposed by the PR, will wait a little longer on Speaker Arbnori's desk. Aurel Simoni

LDSH statement The demand for an independent Kosovo must be defended The Albanian Right League notes that our nation is living through a very critical moment. The establishment of peace in Bosnia was not accompanied by any agreement on Kosovo and on the Albanians in Montenegro and Northern Kosovo. Statements by certain foreign personalities suggest that Kosovo will remain a Serbian province. The Right League cannot in any way agree with such a view. The prolonged patience of the Albanians is regarded as wisdom and a factor of peace. Kosovo must be content with this praise, while in reality it remains independent of nothing. The Albanians, who make up more than 90 percent of the population in Kosovo, will continue to be considered a “minority” in Serbia, asking at every age for certain rights that Belgrade can erase whenever and however it wants, as it did in 1981. The Right League, whose sacred goal is the unification of the Nation, in today's circumstances stands for Kosovo's independence with the right of self-determination under the protection of the United Nations. This demand is in li- (continued on p. 5)

Between two evils, should we choose the lesser one?! Then who is Hitler and who is Hindenburg? The old German saying from the 1930s, “between two evils, choose the lesser one,” which brought Hindenburg to power, has now become a proverbial aphorism that above all sums up the unenviable position of an electorate with no way out. It is a fact that this quota of the political elite, of a nationwide mentality with a ready-made solution, comes less from the fault of those who vote and more from the cynical mediocrity of those who steer these people toward a less bad name, toward a lesser evil, which precisely because it is such cannot defeat the greater one, failing before it and bringing the misfortune of a nation onto the stage. It may be just a fantasy, but all the official propaganda and that coming from the left wing of the opposition, with the intensity of their noise, with the mutual blows exchanged among alternatives and with the selfish use of means that shape the power of government, seem to be spreading this very antithesis of choice among the people. It is not simply a matter of the outright nihilistic attacks that the PS directs throughout Continued on p. 5

Meksi faces interpellation next week Next week the two-week deadline given to the Prime Minister to prepare for the interpellation expires. “Everything will proceed according to the procedures,” confirms Meksi's press office. Since Pjeter Arbnori's request reached his desk only on 6 December, the Prime Minister must respond to Parliament within fourteen days, at the latest as to whether he will be available tomorrow or not. If he is not ready, then under the regulations of the People's Assembly he must state the reasons for not appearing, or request more time to show up. Meanwhile, reports from parliamentary sources say that this week the Prime Minister will not appear for the interpellation. A law on land use (also in committee) seems to have blocked the head of government from going to Parliament. The request of the 86 Republican deputies, Celiuku, which under the rules has been rushed onto the agenda of the weekly sessions (article 90), has to wait another week, until the 20th. But from the Prime Minister there is only word that the procedures will be followed and nothing else is foreseen. Thus the questions prepared by the deputy from Banas nearly two weeks ago will perhaps be joined by others, concerning the increasing number of people leaving Albania illegally, even after the tragedies at the beginning of December. A S

Members of the PR National Council are informed that on Friday, 22.12.1995, at 10:00, the National Council meeting will be held. The items to be discussed are: - Problems of the electorate and organization - On the revised PR program - Press and propaganda Press and Information Office