Malaj announces candidacy for secretary general The Socialist Party has proposed the chair of FRESSH as Majko’s replacement. The split in government begins. page 3

After Nano lost the battle against corruption, there were accusations only of being Berisha’s “spy” and the irony and mockery of Saliu’s sycophants... After Nano lost the battle against corruption, there were accusations only of being Berisha’s “spy” and the irony and mockery of Saliu’s sycophants. But in life one rarely enjoys both delirium and sadness. Majko knew this in the correction of his own predecessor Nano. To go, without understanding it, into the hands of a fool. The USA did not make him more sensitive, did it separate him? The murkiness and the gnawing contradictions! They adored him like a soul, they told him he had been in the role of the soul’s shadow lover. Shadow? The rural press and café gossip, the clans with the successors of meanings? Majko knew that political moves and wealth, keeping in mind the outcomes of recent conflicts, mattered. Was he not a big boy with terrifying capital? Perhaps even within the ranks of the government. He relied not only on the news, but also took it and ignored it. Everyone was waiting for the verdict of the leadership, about who would stay and who would be replaced. He relied too on the fame he had gathered, but unfortunately the time came when he had to understand the loneliness of politics. The nightly conspirators came out speaking openly. Precisely when he announced his candidacy for member of the KPD, they became involved with anger against him. His closest people crucified him. He also felt sidelined by those who had made him a winner. People who once sympathized with him, but now looked at him with suspicion. Was it fear? Had his power faded? Did they understand that he had lost control of the party? And he lost all chances to respond clearly. He remained hostage to silence and slammed into a wall of distrust. His party did not defend him. The people who had raised him withdrew. He was left alone in his office, with the files and the silent telephones. That was Majko’s great loneliness. He was taking on not only a political defeat, but also a moral one. Around him were familiar faces, but no hand to hold him. At that moment it became clear how fragile his career was and how little trust remained. That support he had seemed more like ritual than conviction. Other forces were moving within the party and the center of gravity was moving away from him. He probably understood better than anyone that the end was coming, but he could no longer stop it. Even the last words spoken about him were cold, calculated, heartless. So he remained alone, like the man who had once been at the top, but who now watched from the doorway as others decided his fate.

The road of Albanian capitals begins Agim Bardha with his friend Kevin Kostner page 22

Nervousness in Albanian politics. In the two headquarters of the first left-wing coalition, Nano is nervous on the other side, while Pollo-Berisha and Pilo. Citizens are Fuat Eriugjha and Dilo. Nervousness in Albanian politics. In the two headquarters of the first left-wing coalition, Nano is nervous on the other side, while Majko, and Berisha and Pilo. Citizens are Fuat Erugjha and Dilo. The city at the head of the editorial impulses. Especially the efforts for it to be spectacular. Pllumbi sent another message but to politics, while a political counteraction. The citizens are Fuat Erugjha and Dilo.

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