The draft law on the Central Election Commission is worsening the situation PD: We will repeat '97 PR: We will protest in every possible way The draft law on the Central Election Commission is worsening the situation Opposition: Change the law, or the country will be in flames PD: We will repeat '97 PR: We will protest in every possible way

ALEKSANDËR ÇIPA With the easing of uncertainties, the real reason for the cancellation of some American visas with Tirana remains closely tied to the government of the Socialist official Pandeli Majko, yet this was happening not only because of the voices speaking of a wiping away of the loud facts of the narco-state “accused” in the latest case. It seems that by now the scent picked up by foreign circles clearly indicates that circles close to power still cannot imagine the guilt of the prime minister’s office. The matter ends with the case of the phone call the prime minister made to the editorial office of “Shekulli” three weeks ago, with a rebuke for not publishing certain journalistic investigations into the “Volvo” case. In the times we are leaving behind, Tirana has started to be stirred like a Kosovo kebab. No one in the government has hidden anymore that its offices and backstage circles were shaken after the news emerged that it had now entered into relations with circles of the American police. People close to the government and others with its spirit have hurried, through their means, connections and services, to reach family members or friends and relatives of the relatives of “Qerimi”, and suchlike, with notaries, clerics. The Meta government has been burying itself in the investigation of its own chain of impropriety. Some others are beginning to adopt a summit-like mood and a ceasefire atmosphere for the papal-like bosses in the government offices, saying that “it has brought the lion.” At least one observer’s eye stops for hours in various political corridors of the government, which through silent contact communicate urgently and administratively in counteraction. Particularly striking is the transformation of some offices, numbered and unnumbered, in the prime minister’s premises. The most surprising thing seems to be in the prime minister’s office. He complains about the loss of some official documents and about the “loss” of e-mail with foreign chanceries. Into the office have entered, in recent times, people from the opposition, media managers and other especially foreign figures are still waiting for the prime minister’s fax, in an effort to learn whether the government intends to explain it before the Assembly of Albania begins criminal proceedings. This slowness, which has not been resolved to date, seems to be affecting the progress of later processes regarding “leaks.” At the same time, another explanation is circulating, according to which, in the end, this was an “action” structured by a group close to the prime minister. Through the means of the parliamentary offices, but surely by other routes as well, it reached the editorial offices of opposition newspapers and the hands of senior opposition officials to be used later against the government. It is further suggested that the “accident” of publication in “Shekulli” then took place, placing the prime minister in the position of victim and the ministers to be used later against the government. As the debate has come to the point of demanding accountability and action, but has not been fully carried out, the prime minister’s offices mention the name of a police chief from the north, who also has influence in a central institution of public order and justice. For a short while, Lumbulye and others would feel strongly welcomed. But from another side this would produce a solution that is not fortified. Moreover, challenges occur, the lost thread of the scenario and the alarms remain, and that too would produce a solution in turmoil. Through the passage of lost time, that too would produce a solution in turmoil.

Edvin Murati and Nozi Turrer during the match Malësi-Skepit?r 0-1 Tirana, 80 years capital of Albania Pages 21-25 P. 26 photo REUTERS

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