Mysterious scenario in the leadership of the PS. After Nano, Majko in the shadows. Ilir Meta and Koci were running for party leader

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Dalip GRECA The Italian right-wingers are the first European politicians to...

of politicians to warn of the catastrophe threatening Albania if it does not abandon the dangerous temptations of crime and the phenomena it brings with it. Representatives of the Pole of Freedom asked Prime Minister Majo to take a decision at the earliest opportunity on political and civil rights in Albania. The right-wing deputies of the neighboring country observed that Albania must establish a series of institutions; otherwise, it cannot aspire to be called a state. The politicization of state institutions, including those of the judiciary, is a well-known fact. Perhaps this is also where the reason for the spread of corruption and criminality should be sought. To some extent, politics has become the lawyer for smuggling, organized crime, masks and the destabilization of the country. It is this “lady” lawyer that generates chaos and arbitrariness in the country. As soon as Albania tries to get back on its feet, politics unleashes destabilizing forces. Albania’s misfortune is that there are still no genuine institutions here that uphold law and order. Citizens find it difficult to find their way through the chaos that has been created. They do not know whom to turn to for protection, since the law is the property of bandits, while the bandits are elements connected to politics. It seems that not only politicians but also officials at every level like anarchy, and many of them have forgotten the contract they made with the electorate. Both the central PS officials and the local ones (most of whom belong to the PD) have forgotten... Continued on page 3

Extended meetings of the Republican Party Presidium for two days in a row. This is how Fatmir Mediu and his closest associates in the Republicans’ senior leadership have decided to start the new year. “We will regard 1999 as an election year,” the senior Republican leaders declared at the end of these meetings, thereby also revealing part of the “secret” of the meetings. The leaders of the Republican Party have not announced any plan for concrete action in support of their idea of early elections; nevertheless, they have made it clear that, for them, the view that 1999 will be an election year will not be just an attempt to... F. 3

Illustration: M. Belortaja

A Serbian spy plane monitors the movements of Albanians Rexhep Qosja: In Kosovo we do not speak one language Secretary of Balli after returning from the USA: Shq Shqiptarët për një do ta bëjnë nacionalistët P. 2, 4 Massacre at the Wall of the Bulgarian, three Albanians and a Romanian girl die P. 6 Nostradamus, his prophecies and failures P. 11 Kadri Roshi phones “Republika.” P. 13 Burrel: Apolonia should not come to Lezhë for nothing P. 15

Today, at the PR Headquarters, at 10:00, the Presidium will hold a press conference

Legalists: Spahia must not be held hostage by the PS-PD P. 5