According to Agim Fagu and his party, the left-wing opposition must win the elections, because that is how the Euro-Americans’ attention can be drawn. A strange observation by the (non-)Socialist candidate Fagu turned into an almost pleading call for an election victory. According to him, this must happen above all because only in this way can the attention of the Euro-Americans be drawn. This is not simply the paradox of the party graphomania of a partyless candidate, as the Socialist likes to call their charismatic representative, who more than anything else is taking away Fagu’s right to hide behind his individuality. More than that, what is forcefully brought to light is the narrow-mindedness of the doctrinaire left-wing alternatives, which, more eagerly than any other hobby, aspire to a policy of focusing the world’s attention, even on the tragedy of ordinary voters. This anti-alternative is so laughable that the first impression left on your tongue, spoiled by the taste of the banality of left-wing rallies, is that what matters is not the choice the Albanian electorate must make according to its convictions, but the choice imposed by Euro-American preferences. Worse still, the role of spokesperson for Western wishes and preferences is taken on by an Albanian Socialist, playing the worn-out card of internationalizing speculation—and, more shamefully, by unbalancing the confused minds of the Socialist electorate, which, even without Agim Fagu’s propaganda baskets, does not know whom to choose between the hole in the net and the ball thrown into it. What makes the left-wing militancy of the “partyless intellectual” tragic is perhaps the involuntary victimization (if it is indeed involuntary) of his candidacy and, worse still, the victimization of the entire electoral institution of local government. The campaign and its importance for his election are therefore not regarded by the Socialists as an element that could, to some extent, balance the absolute concentration of power that the Electoral Law, as well as the way the May 26 elections were conducted, secured for the Democratic Party, but as a process which, only by becoming a Casus Belli, would enable the reactivation of the PQ-SP garamane chorus (with its constant turning of its head toward somewhere it is leaving) over “the total number of millions of votes stolen.” Perhaps in this context, too, one should understand the Socialists’ inability to envision the prospects for governing Tirana, which, as candidate Fagu merely says, “can govern it differently,” without saying specifically how.

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“The Albanian Republican Party,” Mr. Godo stressed, “as an anti-communist right-wing party, aspires with its entire arsenal to victory for the democratic forces—that is, for democracy as an institution.” “The Albanian people,” Mr. Godo emphasized, “are determined to break all ties with the past and look toward the West.” Without denying the importance of the state’s global policy in general, the Republicans, according to Godo, particularly value the irreplaceable and potent role that local government and its administration have and should play. For this reason, its autonomy must be guaranteed and further strengthened.

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To the sounds of “rock” music and the effect of leader Nano’s greeting, Musa Ulqini “embellished” the show by inviting candidate Zagu to dance.

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