The Presidency: The former opposition concealed the truth ON PAGE 5

The people of Gjirokastër fear reprisals ON PAGE 6

Police tighten control measures in the capital ON PAGE 6

The certain victory of the Democrats is taking clear shape with each passing day as 29 June approaches, while the wreckers and organizers of the communist rebellion are experiencing the final moments of their hope of bringing the armed revolution to an end. Elbasan gave Fatos Nano’s rally a cold reception, sending the party of committees and armed gangs the message that they are now isolated in the territories occupied by their criminals with weapons. Amid the buses filled with rebel comrades from Gramsh and Cërrik, the head of the committees, Fatos Nano, found himself yesterday facing the murderous coldness of Elbasan’s deserted former chief and the indifference of passers-by, who watched the street as he spoke. Elbasan, one of the symbols of Albanian civilization, is a slap in the face to the armed gangs, showing them the way to the criminals whose hands are stained with the blood of the guards in the Cërrik massacre and who have burned and destroyed their cities. The short election campaign has always been enough to establish a clear line of demarcation between the supporters who vote for the Democrats and the Communists; beyond that, everything else is geographical. Socialists feel at ease only in areas where their armed gangs make the rules, but even there this situation is extremely temporary. The only oases where the Socialists’ thirst to seize power by force can be quenched are the areas where Democratic Party people have been shot at, taken hostage, tortured and terrorized. Three days before the campaign ends, the party of committees and armed gangs feels isolated on the island occupied by the criminals who have killed, burned, destroyed and terrorized for four months straight. Meanwhile, it should be emphasized that the people of these areas, who have suffered the consequences of the rebellion more than anyone else in Albania, have nothing in common with the leaders of the SP, who from Tirana ordered people to shoot at, take hostage and torture Democratic Party leaders and activists. This means that the Socialists’ isolation is twofold, because their criminal gangs are isolated even in the areas they control with weapons. As the noose tightens around the Socialists, President Berisha and the other leaders of the Democratic Party are receiving confirmation of the great victory of the anti-communist front, the Union for Democracy, in the 29 June elections. Berisha and the others are crisscrossing the country, receiving the blessing of people who are impatiently awaiting election day so they can uproot the cancer of rebellion that has devastated their villages, property, peace and hopes for the future. The Democratic Party has begun its great march to victory, applauded and greeted by its fervent supporters and by people whose hopes have been kept alive, people who want to be freed from the terror of the gangs and from those campaigning in the streets and in parliament with the votes of criminals. The great march of Berisha, which will end with the usual magnificent rally in Tirana, makes it clear that Albanians are delivering a victory for the International Committee, and that they are determined to vote for the alternative that will finally free them from the anxiety and panic caused by criminals and their armed and unarmed accomplices, who prepare bloody scenarios and order crimes to be committed. Albanians will vote for those who will restore law and order, disrupted by the violence of their terrorist weapons in less than two months, and will eliminate the grave consequences of the rebellion in a very short time. There is no doubt that the anti-communists’ victory is irreversible, since the Democratic Party and the Union for Democracy in general have also gathered support despite the violence and barbaric rule inflicted on Democratic leaders and committed supporters. These, as can be seen, have narrowed the territory in which the former Albanian Communists are isolated. In the city of Leonard Demi, the organizers of political crime and terror directed by Fatos Nano, Gramoz Ruçi and their party have been put to the test. The Democrats are pressing on with the great march to victory on 29 June, while the Socialists are becoming increasingly isolated within the ranks of their armed gangs.

75 days to restore order and 100 days to eliminate all the consequences of the communist rebellion. The SP’s “normal Albania” is the violent government of committees and gangs. Yesterday, the great march through the Southeast. Berisha gets Pogradec, Devoll, Maliq, Përrenjas and Librazhd on their feet Second anniversary of the DP’s victory ... of Albania

DP calls on SP to divide the proportional seats The Democratic Party of Albania, in view of the need for the broadest possible representation of the entire Albanian political spectrum in the next Parliament, calls on the SP to accept the request of the round-table parties for a 35%–65% division of the proportional seats in favor of the small parties; another possibility would be to weight these parties’ votes using a coefficient acceptable to them. We believe that the SP’s continued refusal of the request for a major redistribution of Albania’s proportional seats is damaging the electoral process and the consensus among political parties. We reiterate our appeal for the SP to accept a compromise with all the other Albanian political parties and unblock a situation that is holding back the normal development of the electoral process and putting pressure on the small parties.

DP Secretary-General explains the pre-election situation in Albania The Democratic Party and its allies in the “Union for Democracy” will win 50% of the votes and a majority in Parliament ON PAGE 3

Socialist Party rally is another fiasco The Socialist leader threatens to dissolve the Elbasan branch of the SP. The head of the committees is applauded only in Cërrik by the thugs whose hands are stained with the blood of the guards ON PAGE 3

Council of Europe Assembly: 40 observers for the Albanian elections “Some parliamentary candidates are either gang leaders or enjoy their widespread support” ON PAGE 2

Azem Hajdari, Secretary of the DP Electoral Headquarters Democracy defeated dictatorship as soon as the political solution prevailed over the rebels’ march. Terrorism and communism made the Albanian people bleed. ON PAGE 4

The clash with Gjinushi has proved fatal Çupi offers money to have ballot papers bearing his name printed in Italy. The leftists betray one of their most obedient servants ON PAGE 3

The SP has armed gangs even in the CEC SP member Taulant Dedja, a well-known member, told the DP representatives on this commission that when his party wins the elections, he will kill them and make all the Democrats lose their jobs. The DP representative on the CEC has not signed the document addressed to the President, intended to dictate the printing of the ballot boxes. ON PAGE 3

The SP promises to dismantle the administration Spiro Brumbulli has once again announced two days of political purges in the administration and at the Commercial Bank. For absurd reasons, the Socialist head of the Bank has terminated all the contracts of administrative staff, thereby taking the first step toward the political purge intended to drive all Bank employees out of their jobs simply because they were not hired by him. After dismissing the boards and managers of several branches of the bank for political reasons, the Socialist director of the Commercial Bank intends to deepen the communist revanche and fulfill the task given to him by Malaj’s office, which installed him in the bank chief’s chair. Brumbulli is trying to turn an institution such as the Bank into an SP section, as other Socialist leaders on the left have done, starting with his boss Malaj and continuing with all the other temporary former Communists. The fanaticism and militancy with which Spiro Brumbulli is pursuing his political agenda, and his excessive zeal in dismissing administrative staff, are a warning of the inevitable revanche the Socialists would impose on the entire public administration if they came to power. L.K