Anti-Mafia pact between Nano and Berisha
. The Mafia understood that the old social and political structures had been completely uprooted, and that the PS alone in power was not capable of holding back events. The bosses, the “honorable men,” understood the need to modify the entire system of relations between the ruling political class and the means it used to hold on to power, between political power and electoral instruments. The Mafia understood that the slight ideological differences within the PS and PD, and some clashes that had taken place between them but which, in any case, from now on tie them together in the political game—not as an electoral instrument serving an excluded political class, but precisely as a political force capable of taking on the role that the old ruling class was unable to maintain. In other words, the Mafia no longer represents a closed society, but has now become a national phenomenon. By exerting its influence over political life, it is becoming the creature of the political traffic that has swept through Albania. The Mafia bosses, in putting forward the idea of creating an “anti-Mafia” under the leadership of the PD, were not troubled by the recent political and social reality, but by the growing pressure from right-wing parties, which are demonstrating an active opposition. Albanians, freed from the “mortgage” of the left, and confirmed in their ownership of land through neo-Communist laws, are expressing their [??] in favor of the right-wing parties. The PS-PD mafia-like symbiosis is at risk of losing its monopoly on power. The history of their rule is nothing other than the history of secret agreements. Continued on page 4