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By MARTIN LEKA Lezhë’s team, bearing the symbolic name “Besëlidhja,” yesterday gave the city and all its supporters, wherever they may be, not just a cup, not just a football division, not just an emotion, but much more than that. All the players deserve thanks, if only for the fact that “winners are not judged.” Speaking emotionally— [text continues, cut off at the edge of the image] [The upper part of the article is cut off] different, the author of these lines cannot help but state that the game was evenly matched. Indeed, my fellow Lezhë supporters should not “punish” me if I may say that perhaps Besëlidhja’s opponents, Besa of Kavaja, came closer to victory, with their fighting spirit and technical play, after taking the lead in the first half. The fact that the match ended on penalties ultimately shows the rivalry between equals. As for how the game was played, I do not have the courage to analyze it further. But while 22 footballers faced one another on the green field, thousands more were “fighting” in the stands of the country’s largest stadium, supporters of the two teams, Besëlidhja and Besa respectively. Many of those present in the stadium were “stunned” when chants erupted in unison from the Kavaja fans’ stand, in the form of screams: “Death, death, death to communism”; “Sali Berisha, Sali Berisha”; “Freedom - Democracy,” “DP-DP,” and so on—political slogans, as at an election rally. Not to mention other shrill cries using vulgar language that does not deserve to be mentioned or repeated, even amid the fumes of alcohol in cafés. After this, a police cordon formed opposite the “Democratic rally-goers,” while on the other side everything was completely calm, without a police presence or political chants. It is perfectly clear that coming for sport and shouting about politics cannot be a coincidence; indeed, it can be said with certainty that there is political backing and, moreover, the “sponsors” of these mediocre spectacles are clearly identifiable, quite easy to read in the slogans listed above that were shouted yesterday. Perhaps this ugly political spectacle itself also had the opposite effect on the result of the game, which, as we said above, could have gone differently. In fact, it produces no results in the game, helps neither the political force (in this case the DP), nor satisfies the spectators, and leaves citizens with a bitter taste. Ultimately, such false spectacles do not honor the democratic citizens of Kavaja, just as, in a similar situation, they would not honor the free citizens of Lezhë. When the score was in Kavaja’s favor, my friend sitting beside me in the stadium, shocked by the chants of “Sali Berisha, Sali Berisha,” said: “This has brought bad luck to Kavaja. Even Enver was a Besa fan”....

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Page 22 The Besëlidhja team yesterday after its triumph over Besa at “Qemal Stafa” photo P. ILO The Besëlidhja team yesterday after its triumph over Besa at “Qemal Stafa.” photo P. ILO

The Secretary-General of the Presidency leaves The Secretary-General of the Presidency, Daut Gumeni, has resigned. Yesterday, he handed over his duties and left his office at the headquarters of the head of state. Sources close to the Presidency confirmed this, but gave no details as to why Gumeni had “given in.” It is understood that two days ago he submitted his letter of resignation to his superior, President Meidani, and the latter accepted it yesterday. Unofficial sources told “KJ” that one possible reason for the resignation of one of the president’s closest associates appears to have been the Electoral Code. Gumeni was one of the leaders of the Forum for Democracy, which emerged in 1996 as opposition to the then president, Sali Berisha.