our editorial: If one takes a look at the overall atmosphere of our life in our everyday reality, what strikes one most is that, in the broader picture of freedom and calm, the sphere of freedom keeps narrowing, and we are increasingly returning to tension day by day. If yesterday we had staged incidents, arrests, imprisonments and political internments, today other forms have been revoked and are being reintroduced, in which the role of the PSHD is also becoming noticeably apparent in undermining the values of freedom. The open letters of the KC of the PPSH, published in the last issue only three days before the elections, were a crafted propaganda tool to create an atmosphere of terror, to present the opposition leader as a dangerous politician, in order to ensure stability in post-election Albania. These letters have now apparently found the means of their concrete implementation. More than two quarters of the century of political transition in Albania have passed. Our country continues to register an alarm that is the opposite of what Europe and progress demand. This is not a completely natural situation. People, unions and the government have still not wisely determined the path out of the crisis. There are activities that are launched in narrow political terms; unions, organizations and individuals act in such a way as to create panic and the belief that things are moving toward confrontation. This climate is fueled by people who do not know how to behave differently from what they learned under dictatorship: with orders, with pressure, with a language of hatred and revenge. In this climate, attempts are being made to use the country’s major problems for partisan consumption. State officials speak of order and calm, but in fact they sow fear. Those who go up to the podium to call for understanding are issuing slogans that oppose any normalization. Division is deepening. Instead of the citizen feeling the protection of the law, he feels that he is being watched and judged politically. This is not a path to democratization. There are clear signs of a strategy based on votes and pressure. Harsh rhetoric is being accompanied by actions that restrict freedom of expression and organization. We cannot accept that the opposition be treated as an enemy and that any differing opinion be labeled as treason. Democracy is not built with fear. It is built with dialogue, with respect for pluralism, with institutions that stand above parties. It is time for everyone to reflect. Freedom won with so much difficulty must not be replaced by a new order of psychological and political pressure. Albania does not need tension, but the rule of law, justice and civic reconciliation.

We are following the events below with full attention and particular concern. The reformable changes of the government are failing under the reach and command of freedom. The presidency is represented as watching over its activities and with violent means. SHP and the communes are to break away against the diktat. Again this state appears in a strange stance and helps hand the country over to the forces of order. To prevent this, the peak point of the crisis could turn into a catastrophe. The forthcoming conference of this state. Alarmingly, for the foundations, for exhaustion, for security, it has a place and judgment. Our country has before it the confrontation of wills and expects a reaction. Our country and the entire economy and society depend on the principles of respect for the law. The 27 years and could this be the state? how high-minded? that it has in life to be governed? The same Charter challenges and the connections of Islamic currents, and at the point of conflict of Lulëse? In this fourfold anger that the government is endangering and Albanian and came? This turn? is the Albanian state rising to its feet? It has to do with the triumph of democracy, with the acceptance of dialogue, with respect for the political opponent and with the strengthening of institutions. In order not to block the path of reforms and integration, a normal state climate must be restored. Of the conference crisis, because the president’s statement two days ago was not about alliance, but against the agreement. The conference is centered on confrontation. Likewise, the prime minister is not adhering to the line of compromise. In anticipation of these developments, a serious reflection from all sides is necessary. HIP, in its own person? to feel? with what? For such reasons, the state raises once again and of the conference where the state. The state is not the property of any party. It must belong to the citizens, to the law and to accountability. Any attempt to use it as an instrument of pressure harms the country and moves Albania away from the European path. NOTE

We will publish passages and impressions from the letters the poet exchanged with Sali Berisha