Garuli: Crime controls the entire political territory of the country P. 3

Roçi: Gang warfare precedes the congresses of the two major parties P. 3

Minarolli: We cannot understand the state’s absurdities and its structures P. 3

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Albania seems to be the country with the most astonishing and original political class in the world! In this country, the political leadership treats the country like that idiotic farmer: only as something to milk! This leadership has not the slightest responsibility for feeding the cow! Specifically, since the introduction of political pluralism in the country, only one political party has changed its leader! All the others have their founding member as their leader. In fact, there are even nonexistent parties that still appear on the scene, although their leaders have fled abroad for reasons of fraud, etc. I would never have thought of writing about our political leaders if I had not remembered that, over the past decade, this country has suffered several cerebral strokes, and for this criminal state of affairs, or the consequence of adolescent leadership, not one political leader takes responsibility! It is deeply distressing and indescribable that they should take no responsibility for more than 4,000 people killed and abused; in the end, not a thorn pricks these political leaders, whether people are killed with an antitank weapon in the middle of Tirana or remote-controlled mines are used in Tropojë in assassination attempts—the kind that even mafia outfits in Palermo would envy! It is completely beyond elementary logic that these leaders should go on speaking with tears in their eyes about the misfortunes that have befallen their dear idols around the world, while forgetting, on the other hand, that it is they, through their amateurism or some other vice of theirs, who have plunged and are plunging the Homeland ever deeper into the mire! The greatest irony is when these people give paid lectures through some NGO about the system of democracy, while it does not even occur to them to resign; their behavior is not only catastrophic but cannibalistic!

from some NGO about the system of democracy, while it does not even occur to them to resign; their behavior is not only catastrophic but cannibalistic! This means making an unprecedentedly brazen mockery of a people who have in fact been self-governing for more than three years, since they have neither a state nor politicians! Yet our politicians are still there: on platforms, at conferences and cocktail parties, continuing to speak in the name of the martyred Albanian people! The balance sheet for Albania’s past ten years is not merely negative, but pitch-black! And for this criminal, cannibalistic and bandit-like record, all our political leaders who have enjoyed power must be held responsible—leaders who are not only no leaders, but do not even deserve to be non-commissioned officers! These politicians have become utterly degraded. Now it will take only a little courage from all of us to explain to these people, with exemplary patience, that they can do other things and jobs much better. The time has come for Albania, following the example of democratic Europe so often preached by our politicians, to apply rotation too, and for someone to take responsibility for the defeats. Political parties are not property to be held, as they are here, by title deeds! Albania will not go up in flames if some leaders leave the political stage. The era of Enver, when the number one could not be questioned, is dead. The point is to accept this reality and stop keeping the corpses of leaders in the offices of the coalition parties—tender-addicted—in the middle of all this heat; they have not only made the houses stink, but will bring disgrace down on us all!

GOVERNING COALITION COALITION CHAIRMAN The “small” parliamentary parties: Veto against the arbitrariness of PS and PD P. 3

Shehu: I have experienced the pleasure of being party chairman once before P. 5

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Neritan Ceka speaks P. 2

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