is splitting apart With the substance of the speech he delivered yesterday at the National Assembly of the PS, Nano has opposed the leadership of this party, demanding his removal from its direction. This was made known in yesterday's press by Nano himself, according to whom last Saturday, by a unilateral decision of the PS leadership, he was also dismissed from his post as the party's secretary for external relations. After the absurd decision, Nano says that on Saturday morning, in all likelihood, the 5 opposing members of the PS leadership will announce the creation of an anti-leadership faction in this party. Nano calls on all members of this political force to rise up against the authoritarianism of the PS chairman, Servet Pëllumbi. Accusing him of not coming from the anti-communist movement and of having been elected chairman in a non-democratic way, he calls the PS leadership anti-pluralist, careerist and anti-opposition. In his six-page speech to the Assembly, Nano also criticized the course of the Albanian opposition, saying it had failed because it had turned from an alternative into an anti-government movement. He stated that chairman Pëllumbi did not hold the meeting with Mr. Berisha for the sake of a joint struggle against communism, but for career reasons, since he soon wants to become President of the Republic as well. Nano also criticized the right-wing allies, saying that they are not political parties, but communities of people with interests in profit. For example, he describes the Social Democratic Party as having 200 members and characterizes it as a fake party with various small partylets. Explaining the cosmopolitanism of Albanian socialist political thought, he called for this political force to open up to talented people in all fields of creativity and social action. In the PS, Nano said, there must be free space for all honest people of the left and the right. According to him, the crisis of Albanian democracy and the country's integration into Europe are linked to the role that the left opposition will play in Albania. He said that true socialists should not take for granted the political freedoms they have won. Since they hold a large number of local governments in the country, they can set an example of new ways of thinking. Nano said that the issue of the party's name should not be decided with political statements or press polls, but by referendum in the PS organizations. He considered absurd the formula of a red nomenklatura from above and an opposition white from below, calling immediately for a temporary transitional pact among the democratic forces against neo-communism. According to some observers, with the version presented yesterday at the PS Assembly, Fatos Nano aims to rally and draw behind him the honest people of the Albanian left. Where is this party heading? The leaders of its basic organizations yesterday ended with great eagerness that chairman Servet Pëllumbi should be removed today, but on the other hand three members of the central leadership blamed Nano for splitting the party. At least, clearly, if there will be a split and the creation of an anti-leadership group, according to them that will be Nano's fault. But as we have already stated before as an independent newspaper, the clash of several currents within a large party like the PS will democratize it and at the same time make it more open to different views. At a time when throughout Europe socialism is seeking a new identity, the era of personalism and the cult of the individual has definitively passed. Thus, Nano is also not allowed to become the Albanian socialist version of Gramoz Pashko or Meksi, which means that there remains the most terrible enigma left to us by communism: the culted personality, which in the circumstances of a truly democratic party would be dismantled much more quickly. We have nothing more to say than this. All those who believe they are true socialists and untainted by the past should, in these days, have great clarity in order to provide a non-immediate solution to the crisis of this party. Otherwise, the impression is at risk of being created that the former PPSH was re-founded not as a true socialist party, but as a party to satisfy the careerism of a handful of people.

Two deputies, Dëshpërim and A. Imami, after provocations by the newspaper “Republika” from a paramilitary militant of the “Party of Legality,” were shot dead with an automatic weapon without warning. This serious event shook public opinion as a whole and highlighted the harsh climate of political conflict.[?] [This text is partially unreadable in the image and remains truncated.][?]

Why is Nano rushing to take Ahmeti’s defense? In an absurd position, Nano is keeping silent about Ahmeti with a stubborn head and is keeping silent. We will not remain silent about Ahmeti, neither from the left nor from the right. What is happening with customs is a scandal. If the PS, which should be a modern party, defends corruption, then it becomes part of it itself. [The article is partially unreadable at the edge of the page.][?]

Declared the American envoy, BILL KLINTON

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