PD, 50 protesters for the hunger striker. PS: The strike, a thorn in Berisha’s side. F.N.J.: trial month for the Albanian Marshal Constitution: Referendum, 8 March '98 PD, 50 protesters for the hunger striker. PS: The strike, a thorn in Berisha’s side. FNJ: trial month for the Albanian Marshal Doctor Berisha and patient Arbnori Dr. Ferdinand Poni has, before the press, counted down the coming dramatic hours in the life of the former Speaker of Parliament who announced the hunger strike. The only reaction from his party comrades in this highly politicized event, before a transfer to intensive care, came through a major television outlet: They were talking about a sick man. On Wednesday, at 11:30 a.m., an emergency vehicle from Hospital No. 2 transported a very seriously ill patient from Berisha to Tirana. This created an even more alarming situation. Sali Berisha announced the latest stage of the opposition’s mobilization to prolong the hunger strike even further and a kind of mobilization for its end. By sidelining the government officials from the Prime Minister’s Office in the protest over the former Speaker’s strike, the political сценарios of Sali Berisha’s office have placed a hospital bed inside his party. To dress the first patient of his own with the patient’s shirt, the next doctor Sali Berisha and his first spokesman, Skënder Gjinushi, [?] before journalists, the stubborn father of the marshal of his new line of thought. And with the anti-ping-pong of the doctors who, by telegraph to the Party, Berisha was found in the party’s thread. The hunger strike of Mr. Tritan Shehu three years ago and that of the intellectuals of the current opposition, seemed entirely in the hot summer of Tirana, leaving behind even the arms-trafficking scandal that weighs on the right-wing opposition. The chairman of the PDSH, Arbnori, even though hospitalized in the intensive care ward, has been hard to keep from lingering softly and continuously. The 49-year-old who was displaying himself has pulled back completely [?]. PD leader Berisha puts on the doctor’s coat for Arbnori in the hospital

Dr. Ferdinand Poni put on a doctor’s coat after very little time, for a highly politicized scene before a transfer to intensive care, while the only proof of indifference to the fate of the former Speaker of Parliament was a statement in the name of his party comrades and a political announcement with the brief phrase, “We were talking.” On Wednesday, at 11:30 a.m., an emergency vehicle from Hospital No. 2 transported a rather seriously ill patient from Berisha to Tirana. This latest political scene of the case brought Berisha to announce the latest stage of the pro-constitutional referendum opposition, which responded by leaving a kind of hypocritical taste as justification with its own signature to continue exploiting the event. Instead of calm, Arbnori ended up in an intensive care ward where even family members are not allowed, while party comrades continued making political statements about his condition. Most of them were not later seen to inquire about the family, which remained anxious in the hospital corridors. Emergency doctors declared that his condition was serious, but out of danger to his life.

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