Yesterday’s opposition rally, regardless of who organized this gathering, showed once again that the PD and Berisha, who was found in the foreground of the “ultima” here in belief, are still strong. The opposition forces gathered in the center to deliver their verdict after three years away from power. But as it seems, the citizens who filled the square were loyal to the leader. Yesterday, little by little with the arrival of the right wing, sympathy, as well as from the larger part of the state, turned toward a teacher to reject or not the accusations about such a thing? They came alive in a spontaneous enthusiasm with which the inhabitants did not separate from the repetition of Berisha’s speech. “Liberation,” said the former president and the crowd erupted to its feet. This sharp rise in the number of supporters came mostly after six months of Fatos Nano’s socialist government. The speakers, this time of the governing coalition with the PS and above all its baptism of Berisha and the absurd mistakes that had prepared the governance now turned into a government of thieves. There are still people who think that a model leader is one who shows that he does not tolerate being governed by others, that he is the leader who rises above the others in all aspects that the city has and even stands alone from the others. Since that push from the capital, the crowd’s eruption in the center could not help but recall the pamphlet of the forthcoming governance that has yet to come. In this aspect, the leaders of the right are everything. It is spoken of in a more future era, but as adoration. Thus, mandated by the right-wing party, pleased by that important electoral segment, where the independence of the Democratic Party and all forces against the government and the left is affirmed, is as strong as it was four years ago. Yet, this has to do with the climate created after 14 September 1998, in front of such an electorate, which is equally charged with violence and, if the socialist were to prove it, even to call a government courageous and economic with transformations and united not empty. In the governance of the near government such a government may be in socialist fragmentation, even to call such a government. The government’s care is no longer prolonged while facing the accusations. In the chorus of the instruments of politics, thus becoming the main theme in its staff. In this condition, the opposition has crossed a kind of mark where, from its base and especially that of the Democratic Party, it has passed a considerable level, igniting the people in an all-inclusive protest. Why this and all of Berisha’s changes? Ishem is bringing the populist rhetoric and his vote closer, important, calling it the oppositionism that opened the way to instability in government, making him win as a manipulator? But whose direction is this? If so, have they asked for it? Under these conditions, the opposition has gone beyond such a level not only because of the climate created, but also by considering the government unwilling and corrupt. It had gone beyond 14 September 1998, remaining such, and is coming in a climate equally charged with violence and accusations. What can be said is that yesterday’s gathering, held in the center of Tirana, was as much a backbone of the opposition as it was an uprising against a government as exonerated and clumsy as a wolf is eating him after he was as if he had pardoned him that he was at the end. page 2

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