Refugees are dividing the coalition. PSD and PBDNJ, unlike PS VEFA opens its books: 85% of the staff are socialists. We have been helping "Zëri i Popullit" for 5 years

The expulsion of Albanian refugees has shaken sleepy Albanian politics. The opposition has put the government against the wall, while it has forced the Government to speak of division. The Government is so divided that it disowned the statement made two days earlier, when it had justified the expulsion of refugees by the Italian authorities as the result of an agreement between the two governments. Last night a strange thing happened. Things had not really been like that. A government that speaks one way in the evening and wakes up on the other side in the morning cannot enjoy the trust of its own citizens. It has no moral right to demand civic credibility. The collective expulsion of Albanians, physical violence, spiritual repression, especially against children in the camps of “hospitality,” should shame the government and wake it from its sleep. Yet this did not happen and there is no likelihood that it will happen in the future either. Oddly, the government does not speak a language that is understandable; it does not speak Albanian. Two days ago there was talk of the bureaucracy in implementing a bilateral agreement. Last night Ceka passed the ball to Fino, claiming that the agreement was that of the technical government, but Blushi, on behalf of the Prime Minister, played a blind pass without the ball; it is not a matter of government agreements, but of Italian parliamentary law. Blushi had forgotten that two days earlier he had spoken of government agreements! Try to make sense of this language! The survival of Albanians seems to be Continued on page 4

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Azemi on the phone from America: "Berisha, go to Parliament. We have no other way" Page 3

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□ Durrës: Insults, tears of despair. A man from Shkodër with his sick daughter is holed up in the Port "The eighth" in handcuffs Page 7 □ Chief Prosecutor: Contraband is what interests the state Division XXI catches the Italo-Albanian company red-handed The President asks for mercy Page 2 □ Creditors send the decalogue to Arapi VEVE shows the future face of the capital The governor rings the inflation bell Pages 8-9

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