Shkodra, the political map of the future
The Municipality of Shkodra and the communes where the right-wingers have won will be like a laboratory, where Albanians will learn about the benefits of a right-wing government.
The eyes of all Albanians throughout this week were turned toward Shkodra, toward the city which, when many least expected it, challenged the DP—the DP. Once again, it was the city of Shkodra that gave Albanian politics an example of the direction the country's development should take in the future. First, the victory achieved in Shkodra by the grouping of right-wing forces showed Albanians that the Albanian right will be a significant partner in Albanian political life. For some time, as a result of the influence inherited from the ties of the past on the part of the PS, as well as the PD's tendency to monopolize everything, political life in Albania had been moving toward a bipolarization that was extremely damaging to the future of democracy in the country. Continued on page 4