Companies on the transparency list. IMF: We are not to blame; let history make the assessment Meksi does not attend the National Council, Spahia does not become an MP, PD at the head of the crowds

The return of the former communists to power through a mechanical swapping of places with the Democratic Party did not provoke any major reaction in Albanian public opinion, which tends toward the right. The SP’s program is almost identical to that of the DP, at least in what is essential to their shared concept of the treatment of lawful property. The two concepts converge on one point when it comes to the sanctity of property, especially inherited property, whose development is bound up with national sentiment. The cosmopolitan political clans of Albania, the DP and the SP, took care to revive the Leninist concept of land, denying the rights of legitimate owners. Law No. 7501 legalized the massive dispossession of Albanian property owners, confirming the secret bond between the DP and the SP, embodied in their shared mindset and efforts to delegitimize rights and build an artificial state. The DP-SP parliamentary unanimity of the past over the land law cost the country’s capitalist future dearly, since citizens were denied a fundamental right, which in any case hindered free enterprise and called into question the establishment of the state’s basic institutions. The delegitimization of property also had spectacular effects on the national level, as national sentiment came under attack from the revanchist chauvinism of neighboring countries. Supported by Berisha’s wish to the members of the minority, “may you enjoy your title deeds,” they developed an aggressive platform, detailing projects for the Hellenization of the south. The efforts of right-wing political forces to repeal the “land law” during the five years of DP rule were completely ignored. The Berisha state took care to create the so-called “class of new capitalists,” convinced that this would crystallize an electoral constituency bearing the DP’s label. But the facts showed that these calculations were wrong. Most of the “new capitalists” did not change their old communist genes, and the DP’s left-wing, anarchic capitalism further deepened their extra-communist leftist tendencies. They became carriers of corruption, and their [unclear in source: “rrëhsvete”] compromised the entire state pyramid, ultimately bringing it down. It would hardly be sensational to say that Berisha’s state was brought down by the anti-national law against lawful property, since it created the main precedent for the pseudo-state. The euphoria that has taken hold of the new rulers under the SP banner today seems destined for the same end, unless fundamental laws such as the one that respects the sanctity of property are corrected, creating the conditions for the institutionalization of rights and the rule of law. The former communists are certainly inclined to preserve the old status quo in relations between the state and property owners, promoting tricks with social effects, but calculations of this kind cannot compensate for the dismantling and disregard of rights. Right-wing MPs in parliament and the political forces of this spectrum, according to information coming from the offices of the parties in this spectrum, will soon officially call for the repeal of the infamous land law, considering it a major deformation that must be destroyed once and for all, and the only solution to the institutional mess that has been created in Albania.

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Librazhd Greek diplomats are pelted with eggs. Elbasan Father of 8 children is killed. Gjirokastër The special forces are ambushed Pages 5–7