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By Maksim BEGJELI The left is aware of the shameful end of its rule and is using political-propaganda tricks to prepare its recycling in power. Political sorcerers are trying to recycle another 14 September, as the Interior Minister declared two days ago in the city of Korçë. The minister’s ominous warnings are so credible that he refers to newspapers published for daily consumption. “Whoever repeats 14 September will die,” declares the head of public order in the Majko government, even though it has still not been legally established what 14 September was. Such statements have only a terrorizing effect on public opinion, crudely seeking to terrorize the opposition as well. Reminiscences of fascist-communist propaganda still carry authority in the psychology of Albania’s left-wing rulers. Democratic society is degenerating into a base society, into a democratorship, where the rulers seek to monopolize the life and death of citizens and exploit them for political and electoral purposes. If the head of Public Order’s abstractions are based on the PD’s advance-prepared statements about mass protests in the heat of summer, they should clarify beforehand that the PR too can organize rallies and public protests as part of the struggle against publicized crime, in the fight against criminality, and for the application of the death penalty. Could these democratic demonstrations also be considered a “coup d’état” by those who are carrying out every day an “anti-institutional coup” against democracy, human rights and the rule of law? Making such accusations against the opposition is a serious political crime. The ground cannot be cleared for a return to power by dictatorial methods. It is known who organized the unrest and unconstitutional violations in Albania; we need only recall the grave events of 1997, in which, alongside anti-Albanian foreign circles, many of the senior leaders of the opposition at the time—now in government—were involved. The campaign of psychological terror against the people and the opposition may block the democratic process and evoke the anxieties of dictatorship. Police officers are killed every day under the Interior Minister’s watch, police station chiefs are wounded and, strangely enough, he is trying to sponsor a self-promotional campaign, firmly convinced that one day he will be hailed as a hero. Such antics are part of the dialogue about the principles of the internecine struggle currently being waged by the Socialist leadership.

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