Nano: PSD manipulated the votes at the expense of PS
Yesterday, at the meeting of the PS leadership, the Socialist leader launched a harsh attack on the PSD and Berisha
pages 4, 5
Serbia: Between continuity and change
By Prof. Dr. Kastriot Islami
The new President of Serbia, Vojislav Koštunica, during a kind of natural repose, “sat” for eight of the nine hours in front of television channel monitors, to follow and comment, word for word, in his subtle way, on the slowness. But the whole picture did not bring Kosovo and its people into the light, the first half of the month of bombings and occupations by Milošević’s regime, and many others just as anonymous as all his chosen apparatchiks. Meanwhile, on his return to Belgrade, seated by the airplane window, he seemed repelled by the noise of the radio and the crowd, repelled by every movement, inscrutable and overly closed, frightened and tired, confused by the question of whether his victory in the second round of elections for president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was ever a real victory. Without prematurely selling off any “consumption” of surpluses, while replacing the quotations that the servants henceforth called Koštunica’s electoral slogan, “clean hands,” but with a saga to be guided better than to be offered. His measured words, with no discordance like the great melodies of Serbian rhetoric, accompanied by the collar of adoration and of Serbia, yet loyal and smiling from the warmth to name the great homeland, from which he emerged victorious and not the other Serbs.
Slobodan Milošević - without warning and without a “takeover,” with a disgusting and painful revival
Milošević’s dizzying career, which clashes with continuity - and not for his wife Mira Marković, who has left him up to three suitcases of books and 400 bags of mackerel. Since Thursday, he has been waiting thirty-two days in the reception rooms of his palace in Dedinje, dying nowhere in the oblivion of a two-headed presidential republic, one of which is rising behind the high wall of his villa. The only obituary he trusts is that the entire apparatus that surrounded him has remained. The one has remained with its hand on the crown handle, although, in the downfall, the slain one could happen to Milošević as well. On the other hand, he maintains, with no talent at all, the swagger and dreaming of tired and crippled citizens, who can indeed put an end to a statute of very limited autonomy and governance in the name of the economy.
(continues on pages 16 - 17)
The Albanian Prime Minister Meta, yesterday - die sukup, with the Macedonian Prime Minister Georgievski