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Republika

E Martë, 14 Nëntor 2000

Arben Rakipi is removed

Poda, Prosecutor General He is offered the post of Albania’s ambassador to the US EDITORIAL By Genc GOÇANI Times of dismissals in Albania The government house, ruled the whole time by mafia-Ottomanist clans with inseparable ties to crime, has built its own organization, raising every institution in the country to a medieval level. Today they seem to have convinced themselves that they have repeatedly failed so far, not because of the evil of their anti-Western and ignorant nature, but because Albanians themselves are unable to accept them with their eyes closed. Another reason for the reaction must have been the trip to the US, the prime minister’s meeting with the head of the Bank of Albania. Even if they resolved a joke, the Albanians would not have understood their conversation, not only because they were not seen, but also because something mysterious is happening for them. And according to the tradition of Tirana’s governments, the name of the “victim” emerged, Arben Rakipi. It now seems to have been clearly determined from “above” that, in order to save the “faults”, since bile is no longer enough, the replacement must not be some minister, but the head of the big “wolf”! A rare sight, and one of our times of dismissals! Now they have heard us and dismiss us. We hear that he has been replaced by a “tongs” to be used in a mug, not even on the anarchic slope. He is once again being replaced by the very same man who just a few days ago could not even do us this favor, while a few days earlier, with even more anger, he was sending off the Foreign Minister with insults, leaving all of Albania speechless and posing with the jaw down. Yes, if Mr. Zojzi, so learned, so wise and so affectionate to the point of likability as he appeared to us on TV, why is he replacing this Poda? Why does this one replace a minister? In a country like Albania, with institutions erased from the prime minister’s mind, he himself is both minister and head of the prosecution and the court. Precisely, licenses for foundations Alarm in banks Endless press conferences, meetings with banks and foundations with military men. Not because conferences and meetings were held and banks need “lessons”, but because the logic of the government and criminal funds is operating as it did 20 years ago, according to the order: “First explain things to the people, then let the people take charge of things.” The country has entered confusion and people are simply abandoning the structure of banks and foundations. According to the Bank of Albania register, loans have been falling steadily, while deposit growth in some private banks is taking on visible proportions. We all know that the government situation is ruined, but also centralized in the opposite direction. In a country with more than 8-9 parties and hundreds of associations, Albania is once again becoming the Bank of Albania. We all know that
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