Pëllumbi, Meta, Poçi, etc., call for the leadership to be dismissed The Socialists’ Steering Committee meets today. A message from Nano is expected . Motion No. 2 in the Socialist Party. Pëllumbi, Meta, Poçi, etc., are calling for the leadership to be dismissed.

It is impossible to convince our president that being president of a state entails certain standards which, by law, one must respect—even if one is the Buddha of democracy. Nevertheless, Mr. Berisha continues, with admirable persistence, to behave like a militant party leader. He does so even though the price he pays is reflected in his loss of points as a democrat. As president of a small country, and the first president of a democratic Albania, he had every opportunity, despite his past, to become an Albanian Havel—not, of course, a former dissident or former prisoner, nor a playwright, but a doctor who does not write plays, naturally, yet has the makings of a humane, cultured person with genuine political and, above all, social vision. But Mr. Berisha seems utterly convinced that if he is not at the head of the PD, he is finished—and Albania along with him. This is where his shortcomings as a politician begin. First, positioned this way, he inevitably acts like a party secretary. He does not convene the PD without writing; he leaves no party rival uncriticized; he misses no opportunity to close off his own paths to showing that he is everyone’s president. So, inevitably, he cannot leave a law or a meadow untouched without going around shouting: “Long live the PD.” For the sake of this wretched party, he is falling out with everyone: with his people, whom he sincerely believes belong to him; with the parties, which do not know how to act when he is before them; with Europe, which is very cynical when it gives marks; and with America, which does not forgive certain things it considers sacred. Thus Mr. Berisha gambles with his reputation whenever he gets the chance, unconcerned that there is also a tomorrow.

Yesterday in Tirana

As soon as the election campaign for 26 May began, Telekom cut off both telephone numbers of the newspaper “Koha Jonë”. And from 14 April until today, neither telephone number, 28781 and 28796, has worked, although we have always paid Telekom’s bills on time. Our inquiries about having the telephone signal restored were met by its representative with the response, “We have been ordered to keep ‘Koha Jonë’ without a telephone”! When we explained to foreign journalists that the “KJ” newspaper’s editorial office works without any way of communicating with its correspondents, they were astonished and replied that “even in Serbia, newspapers’ phones are not cut off; even in Pinochet’s time, editorial offices were allowed to have telephones so they could work.” “I don’t know who works”—and “KJ” has been operating like this since 14 April. Readers, please forgive us for the lack of up-to-date information that is noticeable from time to time in the pages of the newspaper, since our correspondents send their articles and news for publication by taxi or by train. THE EDITORIAL OFFICE

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