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Power politics, a victim of amateurism The conflict with PAD and now with PBDNJ is breaking up the coalition Seated at the table with the PBDNJ party, it may not be so dangerous, but seated with a ... ance for the State is faced with a real fact. The chairman of the Shkodër branch of PBDNJ, Millan Vaso, after consulting with the chairman of ... with which this PBDNJ leader is invested deprives him of such personal lapses, when the entire leadership of the country is compromised. These “initia-

Seated at the table with the PBDNJ party, it may not be so dangerous, but seated with a war criminal named Sllobodan Millosheviç has this time set the Alliance for the State ablaze. a war criminal named Sllobodan Millosheviç has this time set the Alliance for the State ablaze. The participation in the congress of Serbia’s socialists and the endorsement of Millosheviç’s election as chairman of that party by one of PBDNJ’s representatives has seriously compromised the governing formation. Attempts to negotiate with Millosheviç have also been made before, but these lines come after the talks with Millosheviç’s administration in Rambuje and after NATO’s air strikes there. These agreements with the criminal who committed genocide and ethnic cleansing against the population in Kosovo were brought to a definitive end, especially after the Hague Court declared him a wanted war criminal. Wasn’t the handshake between Millosheviç and LDK chairman Ibrahim Rugova harshly condemned by most Albanian and international public opinion? In this climate of severed relations with Slobodan, the country’s governing formation, the Alliance for the State, faces a real situation. The chairman of PBDNJ’s Shkodër branch, Millan Vaso, after consulting with his party chairman, Melon, went and paid tribute to the Balkans’ most hated figure in Belgrade. The chairman of the ecological party, Namik Hoti, was with him, and nobody is concerned about him. But PBDNJ is a partner in the Alliance for the State coalition, and its leaders, as representatives of this alliance, cannot deny their complicity by labeling such an act a personal initiative. Their statements to the media cannot convince Albanian or international public opinion that such political madness is acceptable; they only demonstrate the amateurism of these Albanian politicians, who have failed to understand that, as public figures, they are accountable for any private-life action that stains their political activity. With what courage does a leader of a party in the governing coalition attend a party congress in Serbia that devised and led the violence in Kosovo, and then say this was a private visit? The mandate held by this PBDNJ leader precludes is compromised. These “personal initiatives” by this politician cannot fail to implicate the Alliance for the State, as some of its leaders are trying to excuse themselves, all the more so because those attending the congress there accompanied it with praise for Millosheviç’s ominous career. The question is: Will the coalition swallow this “political blunder,” feeding people empty phrases that nobody is to blame, or will it decide to remove individuals and those responsible from the country’s leadership? This question remains open, since the coalition is undergoing continuous disintegration that can no longer be patched up with partial reshuffles. This crisis began with the breakdown of relations between PAD and PS and appears to be taking on serious proportions with the irresponsible positions on the international stage of some of the members representing this formation.

Today, at 13:00, at the Headquarters, the leadership of the Republican Party is holding a press conference