Instructors from the USA arrive in Tirana. They will train Albanian secret agents Chairman Klosi: On 1 November a special institute for the Secret Service Page 2

BY KIÇO BLUSHI To be a deputy in Albania is not the same as being a deputy in a Western country. I am not referring only to the material side (salary, office, car, secretariat), since a high material level is not necessarily a condition that increases human qualities; it can even destroy them. In this sense, the qualities of a deputy also depend on his cultural level, on the responsibility he feels, on the relationship between his morality and politics, and on the way he builds relations with voters, with the party that nominated him and with parliamentary life. A public figure with moral integrity does not use immunity as a shield, because at every moment he is obliged to remain “uncovered” before public opinion. There has been confusion and a lack of understanding of the role of the deputy throughout all these years of pluralism. Since he is elected and represents the highest power, from which all other powers derive, the deputy has granted himself unlimited power in the direction of regulating personal, clan or party interests. Most former deputies, because of the rotation of elections, lost their mandate, but did not lose the properties, wealth, luxury houses and unlimited money that came from being a deputy. Because during the past five years this image of the deputy has not been maintained, there are real rumors that this bad tradition may be repeated, thus legitimizing the formula: while we are deputies, let us seize whatever is left, because tomorrow we may be unemployed and expelled (or endangered), like our predecessors! The misunderstanding of the danger of immunity has brought not only unpleasant abuses in parliamentary life, but also in social life. To have immunity does not mean to release the reins of egoism and reason, i.e. to kill, curse, insult or treat anyone who does not follow your tune. Among human beings, the deputy should be the most responsible for his actions and for the words he says, because the weight of words is the creator of his values. In fact, from the dictionaries that are dressed up as the title of leader, it has been made to seem as though the deputy who swears, insults, gets into fights, beats fists and feet, rules by hunger, ignores and mocks others, i.e. humiliates them and again, because he “has immunity”, i.e. unlimited power, is called a “successful leader” because in this way he has pleased not only the party leaders, but also the populism that has dominated Albanian politics and especially electoral campaigns, stamping vulgarity on the podium instead of ideas and alternatives. Hunger strikes are unfortunately entering this same pattern as well. The “Mazreku incident” would not have happened outside this context and vulgar understanding of the role of the deputy with immunity and without scruples that is flourishing in Albanian parliamentary life. “Berisha e ka[?]” called immunity and parliamentary immunity is thus called “jallorën me ndyrë”[?] ... a deputy feels[?] in this he can be subjected to candidates[?] i.e. such a political “farmi[?]” to carry out actions commanded by instincts and not by reason. This kind of verbalism convinces only the other[s] for deeds only Continued on page 5

Azem Hajdari, yesterday from the strike car on a bicycle Photo GENT SHKULLAKU

Exclusive interview with the Vlora boss from cell No. 5 “Only Mazreku and I are locked up with two sets of keys and guarded by bodyguards” Myrteza Çushi, the 28-year-old from Vlora, known as the boss of the capital of revolts, cannot tell his story at length without speaking to the press. He had been silent for weeks, long before the evening of 28 September, when he was detained by the police of his city. And only one month after his arrest and isolation in prison 313 in Tirana, Zani has agreed to give his first interview from the cell, and not as before when he gave them in the center of Vlora. P 7

The PD deputies’ hunger strike continues Police lifts the blockade P 3 Vlora reacts after Berisha’s latest actions Women from Vlora: We will come to Tirana P 3 Ministry of Interior, the process for the black-robed judges is ready Investigations will begin for 17 judges P 9 Facts uncovered about the bloodshed in the South Complaint over the Përmet massacre P 21 Aleksandër Meksi writes about the events in PD The dream left half-finished P 12 Fatos Lubonja, comment on the latest events Not only for daily bread P 10

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