The ally and the opposition: “You can’t get a mustache through twice” The person from the Socialist Party who stated at a press conference that he could also become prime minister independently and chairman of the Socialist Party The Socialist Party member who stated at a press conference that he could also become prime minister independently and chairman of the Socialist Party pages 2-3

With its first unusual decision, the Presidium of the Socialist Party also justified the entry of the “chairman” Fatos Nano, still outside, to take responsibility and for the future return of the constitution. As it was from the beginning, the party leadership had endorsed Nano’s return, which means that Fatos Nano’s criticism of Fino is socialist. In the interview, he did not provide a concrete alternative solution. Thus, thanks to this act, even as party chairman until the end of this year, he began to seriously present his idea of returning as prime minister and in opposition. On the other hand, the party’s media and ideas in the opposition. On the other side, opponents of the immediate response to the party chairman of Fatos Nano will give him the card of debate and reinstatement. Yesterday’s decision by the Socialist Presidium in the media first of all presented Fatos Nano as a “good man” and has usually left them in a difficult position. But, in terms of differing ideas and analysis of authority, the inevitable end before the Socialist electorate. Previously accused without evidence, Nano yesterday de facto received the political card of clean discourse. Even now, as former party chairman until the end of the year, appointed without elections and therefore still with formal statutory status in force, he also gains a kind of pre-political weight; without having constitutional problems, in line with the statutory rules and multiethnic character of his party, they give him the card of debate. He won yesterday more than he expected. It is true that Nano has turned his mind away from the path of his return to the head of the party, also driven by the government’s aims. The opposite happened: he is crossing with parallel waters the presidencies and government discipline, as he disappointed with his statement against the constitutional court. Yesterday’s decision by the Socialist Presidium gave him a rich place. The policy of the social democrats and the ruling party at this moment opens the door one by one to three unlikely scenarios. First, it appoints him in the party, an opportunity of advantages in the candidacy. In this party, at this political moment, not a few senior members, closer and more intimate with Nano, are beginning to think that Nano is returning. This is at least what every declaration says that the former prime minister has made invisible about meetings behind the backs with bandits in the north of the country. Nano, among other things, has fallen into a position he did not have before. Until now the party’s Presidium had excluded him as a government player and opponent. Berisha, thanks to this act, even cleanses the party chairman until the end of the year, and began to seriously entertain his idea of returning as prime minister and opposition. If there are also possibilities with yesterday’s decision of the Socialist Presidium, then also with the government opposition on the stage of the time of conflict. He is in motion.

Nano gets down to work for the fifth time It had been installed in a house in the village of Sllozë page 9

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POLITICS After the splits in the Mirë group, “If we do not meet the conditions, we fail not only the government but the whole country” page 6 REPORTAGE The story of the Albanian Americans who remained in Albania page 7 CURRENT AFFAIRS The phone cards arriving from Finland disappear on the plane page 9 REGIONS A masked gang attacks and robs 4 trucks with fat for the Kosovars page 11 In Dropull, Albanians and Greeks drive each other away page 13