Rugova, the commander of the UÇK
The leader of the Kosovars: “The fighters must take orders from me”
Who won the elections
BY SOKOL BALLA
Who won Sunday’s local elections, since the electoral positions are also important for the opposition and from this depends what the political composition of the new government will be. The United National Party, a grouping and a champion of war, self-destructed in the electoral result, and this comes from the difficulties and shocks it has suffered. The Alliance for Kosovo, which in the first parliamentary elections of 1996 finally lost even the hope at the end of the full reference, while the Democratic League of Kosovo, of President Ibrahim Rugova, is advancing with the defense of 420 territory. Likewise, for the majority of the result for Sunday’s elections, it appears that the allies were mandated for the opposition and the lack of administrative territories that fit the election. In a major effort, 25 June has been announced as the end of the fierce struggle for power that has been going on for two months. In a press conference, which lasted almost an hour and a half, in his LDK office, Ibrahim Rugova gave several messages yesterday at once: the first was that the winners and losers will be those who won in the elections held on Sunday and that the elected institutions would administer the territories for which the Tirana government would adopt a more cautious stance. The second was that the war “alliance” with the UÇK is lost, and the third that the “ceasefire” with Belgrade is the only solution. The chairman of the LDK accused the Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano of continuing to support part of the forces in Kosovo, giving priority to one group. It seems that his reaction was a direct response to statements by Foreign Minister Paskal Milo, who a few days earlier had said that “Rugova is out of the game.”
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Rugova during the meeting with the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anastasjov[?] in Prishtina
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