Five mayoral candidates eliminated elections without a campaign The figures in the electoral army of the year, who chose it? Olsar, “to have fought,” declared, as it was declared, as emerged from the current situation with candidate posters and with a major campaign, while halls and squares are needed so much to seize and attract. 1996, the year of campaigning in motion, stabilization and late-stage breakthroughs, brought harshly like a war. Disgraceful! The noise, the electoral “ammunition” is being sharpened, making it much more evident than the one before. The elections of 26 May, and the turnarounds that accompany them, or the unfinished governance. Yesterday, Berisha’s government of transpensës. It will turn back, the coming of crowns, especially 46 days with candidate posters, which defeated it. These are with no tramps of the opposition, with reason and to seize what[] to be amazed by?!. In the whole number of parties the same ones offer candidates, officials or general figures, of the parties and business, as the voter and electorate are learning. At 56% they make up this kind of good choice, the opposition. Its basis, was counted with which to race or the density of those elected. In the previous elections a major theft is still being traced. The[] different works were. With one hand, the politics of forming the statues. Taking advantage of the north, the void, drawing attention to words, newspapers undermined by internal enemies, affirming that secondary relationship and the electorate. Officially, strong and serving from the basis of its, rank with little in which can calmly the self of the elections with many parties with lines, the opposition. In motion, a name with which we know each other. In truth, it concerns the harshly rough, one for the herd? against. And, it remains the backbone. Bala from different works. In the end it is being sought. In the last way, for the dictator, solutions and satire. Sala who has been a model of legality for the parties. Would we have arrived with passions of the new? The enemies? on the basis of people and the quantity and the replacement a formula is being calculated. In the strategy of the speech against the bandit. 30 hundreds? assigned to having penetrated the north[?]. “Mebi jo ju [..]on? all the young people of the Republic” - One of the figures gathered under the conditions of lawlessness and stepped-up rises. On the south, the speech throws it with monsters of savings that have penetrated the firms of the borders. Koha Jonë will reveal another border layer and perhaps the old ones that the spinning place has, and politics. Shalojta? wide. Relations remain in Tirana photo A. BABANI

The campaign in the electoral years with momentum, for local elections, especially when presented as emerging from the democratic spirit with posters of the candidates, with flags, while the halls and public squares are filled with zealous supporters, has been completely different from the campaign of the early parliamentary elections of 1996, the last year under the great sieve of thin propaganda and the pamphlets of the democrats. The elections of 26 May, and in contrast to the spirit of society, were calmed and full transparency was not presented. That is what transparency was. Will it return? The coming of the crowned only 46 days earlier of candidates, who defeated the political climate with a noise inappropriate for the opposition. This was done with the aim of diverting public attention and minimizing the political consequences of the opposition’s denunciations of the electoral manipulations of 26 May. The newspapers linked to the government have not spared their irony toward the political core of the opposition. Never before has it been treated so harshly and with contemptuous tones, as well as toward the opposition or declared opponents. If we are talking about “mistakes” that came from Holland in their own knowledge? Elena of the command comes? Honored under the condition. The word bears organized resentment. It remains with the relations of Tirana, nothing positive. Otherwise, voters are left with the impression that it is possible, with forces by which? the government will once again impose this “style.” In the south, which has always been an echo of movements against the government, the exclusion of uncompromised figures from the list of mayoral candidates shows that the ruling party fears the free vote and its consequences. The latest newspaper? notes that, by giving priority to the more obedient and less exposed figures, a formula is being prepared for eliminating any alternative that could lead to an opposition victory. This development raises strong questions about the government’s ability to hold an open and fair contest. The way things are being handled leaves room for doubt that the elections are being used not to increase citizens’ trust, but to preserve political control. BLENDI FEVZIU

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