A clash with the police is being sought in front of the Prime Minister’s Office. Afterwards, the Democrats aim to occupy the institutions Deputy Interior Minister Himçi: Police officers will attack if the institutions are touched page 12

BY MARTIN LEKA When Ambassador Ahrens reported to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna that the Democratic Party was crazy, and when this news was broadcast in Albania, perhaps the only person who was surprised was the leader of the DP. For years, public opinion has seen in this party—or, more precisely, in its leadership and the fanatical section that follows it blindly—the disease being discussed. If, for international representatives, it has merely caused the effects of irritation or frayed nerves in dealing with these “irresponsible politicians,” for Albanians it continues to have the effects of psychological terror, a feeling of insecurity and the constant risk of sliding into anarchy. The current DP leadership’s refusal to recognize the results of the latest elections, described as the best held in these ten years, seems to have been the “laboratory” conclusion of the political analysis of the main opposition party’s “disease.” Notice: in all the districts where Berisha won, the elections have been recognized. In all the others, they have not!? Setting aside all ethics, we cannot help recalling the fable of the donkey and the water: they gave it cold water—it caught a chill; they gave it hot water—it got burned; they gave it lukewarm water—it both caught a chill and got burned... The problem is not so simple. The DP’s disease, having become a problem for the country, is an obstacle to democratic processes, investment and development in general. The prime minister, the minister, the statesman, the citizen want to work, not with “rebels” standing in their way, but with alternatives. Without alternatives, we should understand that everyone can be certain that what lies on the edge of impossibility is not simply “the overthrow of the whole government”; rather, analysis leads to the “boomerang” phenomenon. “Reversal,” but the analysis leads to the “boomerang” phenomenon. The example that should make the Albanian opposition ashamed is the elections in Kosovo. Thaçi and Haradinaj’s party, which symbolizes the struggle of the UÇK boys, recognized the elections even though it lost, thereby also respecting the blood of the boys who fell in the war and of an entire people who were massacred. The opposition should seek light, but if it seeks it in front of the Prime Minister’s Office by arguing with stones, then anyone can repeat about this regime a schoolroom verse: “If there were no clouds, if there were no thunder...”

Paolo Rossi, yesterday in Rinas, surrounded by his admirers as he gives autographs

napë i në sha- atë- kul- ullin rme ëhet abur Eu- eria at e hlës më ipi- shtë rej- në met ë e lhe en- Eu- ten ti- mi po i në o e asi ëtë se ara Si- it, rita 17 gi ko- en- m- 2.5 në e n- tet ki- aq pu- fra ra. iri- te inë si në- me i i h- sh- er- oto in.