Majko ignores the PS: “They couldn’t swallow me” The losers are, damn it, creating the parliamentary group leadership pages 2-6

Majko’s cabinet, just a handful of friends Emotion and politics mixed in an unprecedented way; Prime Minister Ilir Meta, faced with the outcome and the defeat without the votes being counted, chose to boycott the Congress hall. Delicate and pulled back after the selection of the government and the decisions of the group. Within some prejudices he made himself appear a winner. In truth, it was the first victory of his political defeat, because he did not leave behind a political cleanup. The announcement of the governments, in fact, was different for that matter, because this one had a particularly clear solution. To spark discontent or a little inexcusable concern. The young people of the party forum made clear to him the way to overcome a defeat, which in essence is political. He has unfortunately been broken within the Socialist Party. Knowing that this victory of the left-wing government can be considered if the second center is in the prime ministership. He managed this new cabinet. The new Prime Minister, Fatos Nano, has quietly left a sort of “purge” of the party and the government and, it seems, has prepared it for a transformation with familiar and unfamiliar names. The departure from the moment up to Nano’s row proclaims it after the downsizing of the forums and after the casting of the only government of the Congress. This clearly shows that the new prime minister is taking advantage of the governance. He has left behind the independence of governments in the intermediate action of the process and has shifted the people of his cabinet to the second stage. The new Prime Minister singles out, without question and without a measure, the overcoming of the parliamentary group and of what was shown as the measure of the parliamentary defeat before the government. A lingering taste of the prime minister, but still with his anger, was seen in his departure from the congress hall. He demonstrated until the last moment that not even his own party was digesting him and especially he himself. There has reached us a merciless sense of the prime minister’s lack of appreciation for the responsibility of the defeat and of parliament in a session where the truth of the latest conflict was clearly shown. The new government more than ever needs a better relationship with the party. Otherwise, departures from the hall, as Majko is currently doing before the Congress, are only signals of clashes beyond the usual. Accompanied by a part of the deputies near that forum, he clearly showed that they had understood the disappointment. That quiet, cold departure from the hall was more than just the absence of the usual welcome. It was a clear sign that the party had not digested its own prime minister nor his new government.

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Four weeks ago, Prime Minister Majko publicly declared on Dutch Public TV that Xhivaga and Çimiku[?] and every future thing had turned it into “the unprotected,” even in the full sense of the word. The prime minister’s statement fell and was forgotten. But even yesterday on TV Klan, from the media center of the PS, he claimed that the year 1997 had proved the official time. Four weeks ago, Prime Minister Majko publicly declared on Dutch Public TV that Xhivaga and Çimiku[?] and every future thing had turned it “into the unprotected,” even in the full sense of the word. To illustrate this statement, he called those people “corrupt,” “weak,” and “unprepared” to become part of governance. Their names are now included in the list of the new government. One of the most notable names on this list is that of Pandi Majko, who was replaced as prime minister by Ilir Meta. Also emerging in this government was the name of minister Poçi, who is seen as one of the most active and trusted figures in the new government team. His inclusion in the cabinet has been interpreted as a clear political rise. The new cabinet also stands out for the arrival of some new figures and the return of some old names. This combination has been seen as an effort to balance the groups within the PS and create a more functional team. Majko, although he left the post of prime minister, remains a significant figure in the PS and in Albanian political life. But the way his departure and the composition of the new cabinet were handled clearly show that relations within the party are tense. In the end, the rise of minister Poçi seems to be the clearest symbol of this new political phase, where some fall and others rise, depending on the new balances of power.

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