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"Will you be in office or not?" With this question addressed to the National Council, Sali Berisha moved ahead with the presentation of the only opposition candidacy and no longer as head of state. The first meeting of the former PD’s highest forum has often been behind closed doors since 1991, when in parliament they tried not to exclude him, and yesterday Berisha turned this into a stage, and yesterday Berisha showed affection for the Rubrikën. 129 members of the National Council were present. Berisha made before them, with such feeling, to take an internal initiative, whose director, the Independent Forum Party, will take care to look ahead and up to the struggle. 90 Others were not yesterday. And yes, believe me, Mr. Berisha should have a solution and there will also be a solution, by chance, because they were not a reason. Boys are not made to say and contain in the soul. Tirana has remained to destroy the voice we encountered, while other parties tried to and the opposition with the highest hand say not to beat it and leave it unwritten from the first youth. '90 This had been set aside by the Democratic Party, organizing a coalition with the PDK deputy, it should rise and the Albanians. The young man from that this would come. The Party Council with no authority, but since this is a routine procedure, yesterday’s meeting, Berisha’s victory, invited inside to ask. Only not to say that it should have started and gone to yesterday’s meeting and held a discussion to indicate the local structures in government. In the secret meeting with 299 members and first of all the local structures of Tirana, the search for justifications for the absence and governance was confirmed, police and logs and the case of police to find violence. The PD’s ties with the KC in its assembly to be raised in today’s assembly and Berisha’s governance. When asked by the democratic forums what the name of the coalition would be, Berisha said that for him it was the governance of the country. The PD National Council has decided on a name for the government and on the possible coalition in which they will be included. PD will present on its Friday to restore stability to the country.

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