The Socialists legitimize the armed committees in Tirana. Official meeting at the PS headquarters PD warns the Socialists that they are driving the country into an even worse state than the one into which it was plunged by the armed uprising organized by them. Mejdani in an office with crime The Albanian Socialists have now exposed their clear aim of launching a revanchist offensive in parliament with Kalashnikovs, seeking a rapid approval of the constitution. Nano’s chosen man to become the future president of Albania has declared that his excessive powers will be transferred to the prime minister only after the Constitution is approved by the new parliament. In an interview for the Albanian press, Mejdani speaks very briefly about the Socialists’ immediate plans, which apparently do not aim first at amending the constitutional laws, but directly at approving the constitution. According to Mejdani, only after that will the hollowed-out powers of the President of the Republic pass entirely to Fatos Nano. The arrogance with which the Socialists are speaking about the constitutional laws, and even more about a constitutional state, has become threatening for all Albanians. With a parliament whose mandate is extremely limited, due to the means of terror and violence used to secure a large number of deputies on the left. The Socialists now dare to go all the way to the constitution with their revanchism, which warns of new political storms in Albania. Without any doubt that everything will be done very quickly and according to the Socialists’ predictions, Mejdani is hastening to show Albanians the model of the future president with reduced epaulettes, according to Nano’s forecasts. He is trying to convince people that he will be a symbolic figure of national unity and outside party influence. Indeed, in order to make us believe this even more, he is trying to declare that he is ready even to cast off the whole of the Socialist Party in order to be a president acceptable to all Albanians. Not coincidentally, such a thing has been amplified by the Socialist Party, ever since the first reports arrived that the next parliament would be dominated by votes with Kalashnikovs. Mr. Mejdani must be clear that even if he publicly throws away the name of the PS and does so before everyone on television screens, no one will swallow the idea that he has in any way changed from being a representative of the fiercest communist clans in Albania. If he was Nano’s right-hand man, defending the hardline wing in the PS, that was not determined by his party card or his membership in the party. Everyone knows that his membership in the Socialist Party does not even reach one year, and it is equally true that he is the chief group man of Ramiz Alia and a man of the Kapo clan, which holds extremely strong positions among former Albanian communists. He was Ramiz Alia’s chosen man, together with Kipo Bishu and others, in the hardest days of the communists’ chaos, when the dictatorship was receiving devastating blows from young Albanian democrats. And this was done with all the costs borne by the PS, from the time Alia appointed, in the 8-member government of the Communist Party, in secret, with number 1 going to the convicted corrupter in Albania, Fatos Nano, while number 2 went to the convicted corrupter in Italy, Bettino Craxi. The Socialists cannot sell Mejdani as a possible champion of impartiality, since the latter’s acceptance of being formally a statesman is in no way the same as what was done so many times with the fanatical socialist hurler, who are now beating their chests and boasting that they have contributed to bringing their party to power. It is highly insulting to Albanians that the constitution is promoting the man who officially welcomed the armed men from Vlora in the state office. The compromise or choice of Mejdani, to keep his hand free for gathering a compromised parliament vis-à-vis the future, is part of a bold strategy that aims at the legal, institutional and democratic takeover of Albania by PS revanchism, or else at approving the constitution with a parliament of Kalashnikovs, which is equivalent to a coup d’état. The future president and the people who brought him to power. (M) Rexhep Mejdani and the Vlora committee, after the official joint meeting at the PS headquarters Photo: A. FUSHA The future president and the people who brought him to power. (M) Rexhep Mejdani and the Vlora committee, after the official joint meeting at the PS headquarters. Photo: A. FUSHA

The Socialists should not sink further into cooperation with crime PD denounces the continued flirting of the Socialists with the armed committees The Albanian Democratic Party considers that the appearance in Tirana of representatives of the Rebel Committees of the South, their statement that they brought the Socialist Party to power and that their only goal had been the overthrow of the Democratic Party, marks a new contempt for Albanian democracy. Perhaps it would not be worth adding too many comments about these committees, because they are already known to Albanian public opinion and to the international institutions that have at least called them illegitimate and have considered them responsible for murders, robberies and the terror situation in the areas they control. But we are also driven by the scandalous fact that representatives of these committees are received even by the Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Rexhep Mejdani, elected deputy without facing fair competition in Tirana and now portrayed as the future President of the Republic. The connection of the Socialist Party with these committees, which in the May 9 agreement undertook to dissolve them within a period of 45 days, is now the opposite of that commitment. The Democratic Party calls on the Socialist Party, which is now on the verge of assuming government responsibilities, not to sink further into the path of cooperation with crime, but to distance itself from it; otherwise, Socialist rule will lead the country into an even worse situation than that brought about by the armed uprising and its rebel committees.

Discontent over the Nano Project ON PAGE 3 The clash of the dissatisfied currents in the corridors of the Socialist Party foresees an extreme government, just as the illegitimate parliament of the Kalashnikovs, which will give it a vote of confidence

The committees aim to transfer the headquarters of crime to Tirana ON PAGE 3 PS legalizes the crimes of the Southern Committees By seeking to be present in the formation of the Government, the committees aim to control state structures, the continued legal operation of mafia activity, and the total criminalization of the Albanian state and society

Thousands of students protest in Tirana against Slavo-Macedonian violence ON PAGE 3 The Albanian flag waves free The demonstrators asked the Macedonian state to recognize and respect the national and human rights of Albanians

Rebel zones protest: ON PAGE 2 Nano’s supporters: “Don’t worry. Everyone will get the place they deserve”

Leka I explains the reasons for leaving “We are temporarily leaving the Homeland so as not to give anti-national provocateurs the chance to use our presence to worsen the situation in Albania” ON PAGE 3

Gjana on overcoming the current situation in the PD The reorganization of the PD structures must begin, not with the idea of the “party of the whole people”, but by putting to work and opening up to committed people, people with a political, national, but also family and personal biography ON PAGE 2

Playing with bombs injures four minors ON PAGE 4

Anti-crime continues the cleanup in the capital ON PAGE 4

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