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Ilir BUSHI After plunging Albania into despair, the government officials are preparing to make a quiet decision to grant diplomatic passports to their novice opposition counterparts, so that this can serve them as a lifeline. The Socialist Party and the entire crowd of those in power are getting ready to surrender power, and precisely in the agony of their departure, they are trying to throw the opposition a diplomatic passport as an alternative for cooperation—which is nothing other than a hope of salvation for themselves from the waves of tomorrow’s ocean. These days the Albanian government is discussing the granting of these diplomatic passports, which two years ago it deemed illegal and accompanied with a collection of accusations. Immediately after this action, yesterday the leaders of the government were sent in turn; imitating an ostrich hiding its head, behind these passports they organized an entire national system, a whole gang, within the familiar principle of the infamous priest: “Do as I say, but not as I do.” The haste with which the ruling class organized the plunder of national wealth amounts to a fatal self-indictment before the eyes of the people and international circles, ending in unmasking, although amid the inter-… [?] warning at year’s end, before the ship is left behind. In this case it is clear that the only thing left for those in power is to save their own heads and, especially, their packed suitcases, without which the journey abroad would be very difficult. Thus the government officials are agreeing to give these passports in the opposition’s name, hoping that tomorrow they too will do the same. This is a familiar attempt by politicians preparing to fall from their seats of power, because this time the leaders of the PD have also repeated it beforehand. Apparently, this political class, which has always been left to repeat the autumn term, is preparing to make use of next summer for holidays as nomads abroad, after the winter of political struggle and the spring election campaigns. So, having shut off the prospects for their own nation, they have hurried to open the airport doors for themselves and their families, in order to ensure a better life. And regardless of the game with diplomatic passports, the Albanian people will still be the winners when they leave stealthily, because tomorrow, after the politicians have gone, the nation will count a few fewer crooks and fraudsters.

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PROSE by Vili Xhaferi, POETRY by Demir Gjergji and Adonis (Lebanon), ESSAY by Borbes, STORIES about Aleksandër Dumas, GRAPHICS by Belortaja, etc.