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By Arben SHEHU Every Albanian who reads the article “What are Prime Minister Pandeli Majko and his government working on?” in the government’s mouthpiece “Ethnic Albania” will not only come to the preliminary conclusion that the country’s current prime minister is aiming for a new career, albeit very slowly [?], after political death, but will also think he is reading material that, with its findings and recommendations, describes a completely miserable situation in a foreign leadership, whose eye, apparently, thinks of breathing in that way with the mind in a row of eyes from the museums of the past, from which the person in question, the Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Paskal Milo, and others, are included as if they had fallen from the sky into the system of chance, without ever learning how they had climbed so high. Every Albanian who reads the article “What are Prime Minister Pandeli Majko and his government working on?” in the government’s mouthpiece “Ethnic Albania” will not only come to the preliminary conclusion that the country’s current prime minister is aiming for a new career, albeit very slowly[?], after political death, but will also think he is reading material that, with its findings and recommendations, describes a completely miserable situation in a foreign leadership, whose eye, apparently, thinks of breathing in that way with the mind in a row of eyes from the museums of the past, from which the person in question, the Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Paskal Milo, and others, are included as if they had fallen from the sky into the system of chance, without ever learning how they had climbed so high. In an article entitled “Lessons with the President”, the government’s overblown spokesperson[?] of “Ethnic Albania” has listed as our own government priority “strengthening the state”. Since she takes seriously the commitment to regard herself as a spokesperson who scrutinizes over the shoulders of the mass media, the leadership, in the messages of changes and in its own most sincere little tale, had no reason to worry about the fact that Albanian institutions became respectable thanks to previous governments and were immediately dismantled as soon as the Socialists subjected the country to the unrestrained orders of former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. It is not surprising that the spokesperson does not understand that democracy, institutions and reforms cannot be built on a half-freedom without moral and political responsibility. On the contrary, they have been distorted in the service of propaganda aimed at covering up the government’s inability to deal with the political and economic crisis. Today, instead of a government that accounts for its failures, we have a power that is drowning in empty rhetoric and escaping responsibility. That is why, day by day, today’s government increasingly resembles a government of farewells, one that sees its political end and tries to save itself with tired excuses. P. 8

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