Majko becomes prime minister, Nano steps down
Withdrawal: PS and PAD are Albania's troubles
And Dokle and Islami candidates for the parliamentary speaker's seat
The end or the beginning of a new crisis
Skifter
Prime Minister Fatos Nano and his government allies consider yesterday's move to change the government as a new victory for the PS against the opposition. For opposition leader Berisha, however, it is no longer a matter of names; the way has been opened for a political solution. TV Klan asked him last night whether this solution would come through the resignation of the President of the Republic Rexhep Meidani and the appointment of a consensual prime minister. Berisha said that the name of the prime minister is not important, that the special envoys of the US and the EU have agreed on a technical government and early elections. Prime Minister Fatos Nano signed yesterday, after the meeting of the PS presidency, the request for the dismissal of the Minister of Public Order Perikli Teta. The request was immediately sent to President Rexhep Meidani, who by midday had decreed Teta's dismissal. The head of state did not put forward a new name for approval on Monday. The meeting of the PS presidency, scheduled to discuss public-order issues, began with heated debates and accusations against the Interior Minister, making clear the new division of cliques in this party, the one of the parliamentary group led by Gramoz Ruçi and of Nano's government with his allies. One of the agenda items was a paper by Foreign Minister Paskal Milo. It spoke about Greece's interest and developments in our country. In a five-page document, from which our newspaper publishes several excerpts, it says that Greece had contacts with Albanian political, military and intelligence circles, which had assured Athens that order would soon be restored and that Nano's government was temporary. Milo says that the main issue in Teta's dismissal is the compromise of these intelligence sources, but it is also seen as the end of a government that thinks only about governing and not about integration. The head of PAD, Neritan Ceka, also declared yesterday that the removal of a government sustained by criminal protection is the first step, which will open the way to a solution. Arena, upheavals...
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The first signatory of former Prime Minister Aleksandër Meksi's petition calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Fatos Nano and his government is, among other things, Avni Delvina, the grandson's son of Enver Hoxha. That alone is enough to imagine that these bitter protagonists of our political scene are trying to give meaning to a completely irrational game. The petition itself is a game in which the intrigues are so naive that through them one can easily reread the whole history of the failures of some of its protagonists, who, in completely different circumstances, once had the chance to take the reins of government, but at no point managed to solve Albania's problems. To put Albania today in front of the thesis that Fatos Nano and his government are the main troubles of this country is reminiscent of the declarations of Serbian leaders about Kosovo, that supposedly there should be calm there as long as neither the UÇK nor the Belgrade regime rules. Ultimately, Albania is stuck in a grim period from which it cannot emerge without overcoming serious obstacles in three directions: without putting an end to its political crisis, without giving a serious push to its economic reform, and without ensuring the security that is lacking. Politically, the Albanian crisis is a crisis of governance that has produced a state which for four or five years has proved and remained powerless whenever it comes to maintaining order. Economically, the country continues to suffer the accumulated consequences of the damage of 1997. Likewise, the Albanian state suffers from the lack of a moral elite that understands its own sacrifices and those of others, distinguishes freedom from scoundrelism, and knows how to separate its interests and passions from the interests and passions of governing a country. The reshuffling of Prime Minister Fatos Nano's government, that is, the dismissal of Perikli Teta and perhaps the appointment of another minister of public order, is taking place in very dramatic circumstances for the country. The crisis of public order has entered such a critical phase that if the current government does not quickly decide, by its own hand or with the blessing of others, to complete its mandate, there is a strong possibility that the country will slip further into chaos. However painful it may be, a political solution is at this point unavoidable. This kind of petition, motivated by megalomaniacal political instincts and imagined as a means of pressure on internal and external factors, does nothing more than encourage Nano's opponents to think that he may become a martyr in the name of stability and order. This circumstance should make the calculations harder for everyone. This kind of deadlock cannot be resolved by the hands of Aleksandër Meksi.
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