There is a strong possibility that the electoral draft law proposed by Teta and Celiuk will be discussed within the month. According to the person presenting it to the leadership of the Assembly, the draft law should be discussed to decide whether or not it will be included in next week's work programme for the deputies. Deputy Teta says that with the proposal of the work programme drafted for work, it expires this weekend (the programme runs until 15 December), and it is up to the leadership to discuss the new programme. Then it will be the turn of the signatories of the draft law. Among these signatories are also Gjinushi, Dokle, Vukaj, and these deputies, members of the leadership, according to Teta, will insist that the draft law be included in the programme for the last two weeks of 1995. After that, the draft programme, according to parliamentary procedure, 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 election law, provided for in this draft, be discussed before the New Year.” Meanwhile, the facts in the Assembly are different. Shefet Zani, responsible for preparing the Assembly sessions, says that for the draft law to be discussed within December, Speaker Arbnori must have it in his hands. In Arbnori's hands the draft law is now in fact, since it has been registered. According to Zani, the December programme has already been drawn up and, in order to find a place for the Teta-Celiuk proposal, the Speaker of the People's Assembly must decide. In this context, everything remains to be seen. It seems that the draft law, which provides technical additions and votes, conceived by the opposition and proposed by the PR, will have to wait a little longer on Speaker Arbnori's desk. Aurel Simoni

To defend the demand for an independent Kosovo 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 in Northern Kosovo. Statements by some foreign personalities suggest that Kosovo will remain a Serbian province. The Right League can in no way agree with such a view. The prolonged patience of Albanians is regarded as wisdom and as a factor of peace. Kosovo should be content with this praise, although in reality it has nothing. The Albanians, who make up more than 90 percent of the population in Kosovo, will continue to be considered a “minority” in Serbia, seeking for their age? some rights that Belgrade can erase whenever and however it wishes, as it did in 1981. The Right League, having as its sacred goal the unification of the Nation, in today’s circumstances is in favour of Kosovo’s independence with the right of self-determination under the protection of the United Nations. This demand is in fa- (continued on p. 5)

The two-week deadline given to the Prime Minister to prepare for the interpellation expires next week. “Everything will go according to procedure,” confirms Meksi's press office. Since Pjetër Arbnori's request reached his desk only on 6 December, the Prime Minister must reply to Parliament within fourteen days, at least as to whether he will be available tomorrow or not. If he is not ready, then according to the rules of the People's Assembly, he must state the reasons for not attending, or request a longer period of time to appear. Meanwhile, from sources in Parliament, reports are coming that this week the Prime Minister will not appear for the interpellation. A land-use law (also still with the commission) seems to have blocked the head of government’s path to Parliament. The request of 86 Republican deputies, Celiuku, which according to the rules has been placed on an expedited basis on the agenda of the weekly sessions (article 90), must wait another week, until the 20th. But from the prime minister only comes the news that the procedure will be followed and nothing else is anticipated. Thus the questions that deputy Banas has prepared, almost two weeks ago, will perhaps be joined by others as well, related to the escalation of illegal departures from Albania, even after the tragedies of the beginning of December. A S

Then who is Hitler and who is Hindenburg? The once-famous phrase of the Germans of the 1930s, “between two evils, choose the lesser one,” which brought Hindenburg to power, has now turned into a proverbial aphorism that above all sums up the unenvied position in an electorate with no way out. It is a fact that this quota of political elite and of a nationwide mentality facing an imminent choice, more than because of the fault of those who vote, stems from the cynical mediocrity of those who guide these people toward a less bad name, toward a lesser evil, but one which precisely as such cannot defeat the greater evil, failing before it and bringing onto the stage the misfortune of a nation. It may simply be a fantasy, but all the official propaganda and that coming from the left wing of the opposition seems, with the intensity of its noise, with the mutual blows exchanged between alternatives and with the selfish use of the means that constitute the strength of power, to be spreading among the people precisely this choice-antinomy. It is not merely a matter of the outright nihilistic attacks that the PS directs throughout Continued on p. 5

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