The law prevents the chairman of the Socialist Party from becoming Prime Minister According to article 35 of the Criminal Code, a person sentenced to more than ten years by Albanian justice, and a person who has once abused office, loses the right to exercise state and public duties At one of the hearings in Fatos Nano's corruption trial

The Albanian socialists are taking a step back from their revanchist ambitions to change the constitutional package with the parliament that emerged from the elections of June 29, which were not fair, not free, but only acceptable under the circumstances. The leaders of the party that won most of the seats in parliament finally admitted that there is no gap in thinking that would allow them to undermine the constitutional package, but that they will try only to approve the constitution itself. At first glance, this new formula that the socialists have been forced to offer seems more acceptable, if one bears in mind that the very idea that a constitution can be approved by a majority of Kalashnikovs is a great desecration of the democratic values that Albanians built in the post-communist years. But the truth is that the socialists have been forced to retreat from their revanchist idea of rapidly changing the country's laws and institutions. It seems that strong international pressure has forced the former Albanian communists to abandon the strategy of trading away the democratic values of the Albanian state in exchange for strengthening the power of one man, who is viewed with great suspicion in the West. Nano's arrogant idea of changing the President's powers in favor of himself as prime minister of the new government has caused a major reaction in Western chancelleries, which even without this fear had already had many reservations about the head of the socialists. Regardless of whether this idea is welcomed by the very person affected by it, the candidate for President Rexhep Mejdani, no one in Europe or in Albania believes the socialist pretense that these changes are being made for the sake of better governance. President Berisha and the Democratic Party were the first to understand the risk of a new destabilization for the country that would be caused by the revanchist policy of the Socialist Party. They warned Albanians that by giving the normal right to an abnormal parliament, the socialists were risking plunging the country into a chaos greater than their armed rebellion. Nano's greed for maximum powers and the threat of authoritarianism in Albania seems to have been read correctly in Western chancelleries. Not only did the Socialist Party seek to impose itself arrogantly on Albanian politics, but especially the fact that the whole scenario would be carried out by their 1st ???, Fatos Nano, has left a bad taste in the memory of Albania. Nano's desire to be an unrestricted man. In the Socialist Party there have always been long murmurs that the time for democracy has come, and the head of the former Albanian communists has been left with nothing else but to think about whether he would defend the right to approve the constitution, undertaken when he came in defense of a change in the constitutional package. Under the new conditions, Nano is left to choose the option of prime minister, while having a strong President, and in the upcoming elections that will put an end to the defense of the parliament of the Kalashnikovs. This means that Fatos Nano, until now a good-natured man who accepts to forgive ???, in order to favor the chairman, may tomorrow become a heavy burden for the power of this party that is in opposition. Nano, but also all our opinion, learns that the chairman of the PS may lose the superiority of the prime minister. It happens that before the law everyone, that has come from the growing pressure to exploit June 29 only acceptable but not fair, Nano now has found he can change his mind and put forward his presidential candidacy. If he does this, it will be proven that for now the first appearance with the constitution is to approve the fundamental laws of the state. On the other hand, he will always be an example of the race of one who seeks to remain forever above the entire victory of his party in political defense of the personal. The change of course by the socialists, but the constitutional package, is a clear sign that deviates from the growing pressure that increases the revenues of the social and parliamentary winners of the Kalashnikovs to put forward goals, a traditional constitution in the name of dressing and the rights of true government ???, which are precisely those from which he threatened that if this parliament with the hand of the Kalashnikov is not given, but rather Albania's support by the leading governments of the West, independently of the condition.

PD Presidium meets: qualitative restructuring of the party Members of the presidium said after the meeting that it was also accepted as a real responsibility of the PD to select people at different levels of representation, government or party, which has not always been at the proper level and has not managed to adapt to the values and concepts upheld by the Democratic Party ON PAGE 2

A bone for Meta, Nano's trick to secure two-thirds in parliament ON PAGE 3

Nano's installation in power, the institutionalization of the communist rebellion The PS's desire to stand as a historical equal to the PD is also the finale of the new socialist demagoguery. The reference to the “old” and the “new” used by the socialist leader for the PD and PS respectively is a living absurdity. PS can never achieve such a historical equalization even if Nano leaves the party tomorrow ON PAGE 3

Opposition: Nano's statements about the Greek minority are not a coincidence "For Nano to carry out what Nikolas Gage wanted, he would have to lump all Albanians together, which would mean bringing not only the Albanians of Albania but also the Albanians of Eastern Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo into the fire. Without poking the world with a needle, Nano cannot achieve what he wants" MELO: In no way can this be an attempt to treat the Greek minority in these countries under a democratic government ON PAGE 3

PPD chairman Abdurrahman Haliti, at the PD headquarters Genc Pollo, Secretary General of the PD, once again expressed the consistency of the PD's thinking as well as the absolute and necessary need to uphold the non-limitation of national rights and national symbols for the Albanian community living in Macedonia, during yesterday's meeting with the chairman of the PPD of Macedonia, Abdurrahman Haliti. Haliti presented Mr. Pollo with a broad picture of the situation in Macedonia. He informed him about the interparliamentary talks to block the approval of the law limiting the use of national symbols by the Albanian community living in Macedonia, about the strongly opposing statements from Albanian intellectual circles and the debates over the approval of this law in the media, both print and electronic, about the openly exercised violence by the Macedonian government as well as about the suspension in the Macedonian Parliament, including assistance to the National Council of this party. The Secretary General of the PD told Mr. Haliti that, in opposition, the PD would try to ensure that the current parliamentary majority and its government become aware of the national issue and adopt policies that protect it. The meeting was also attended by the PD Secretary for Public Relations, Vili Minarolli, who informed Mr. Haliti about the mobilization of Albanian opinion regarding the massacre and brutality of Macedonian Slavic circles against the Albanian community living in Macedonia.

Western media remind Nano of his communism. The French TV channel LCI provides the biography of the chief communist of Tirana In a commentary by this French channel LCI, a subsidiary of TF1, it is said that Fatos Nano, who claims to be the Prime Minister of Albania, is the son of this country's red nomenklatura. His father was the director of Albanian Radio Television for several years, a very important post in the administration of the dictatorship and one entrusted to the most willing people in it. LCI, speaking about his links to the communist dictatorship, also mentions the fact that he was the last prime minister under Ramiz Alia and also one of Nexhmije Hoxha's close collaborators. Speaking about his later activity, the channel sums up this whole period by saying that he was imprisoned for stealing humanitarian aid, while in 1997 he was released by President Berisha. In his biography broadcast by a highly reputable francophone television channel, his own tone must also have been present. The true image of Nano and the nature of his Leninist revolution began to be recognized very quickly in Europe, thus seeking to remove the country's further appearance from the manipulation of the pampered former communist. This is not the first time that Nano's figure has been presented with this characteristic in Western media, given the red shadow of his past. On many occasions German, English, French, etc. media have expressed complete lack of trust in the politician and dictator-like figure of the Albanian, and not infrequently they have suggested to their governments that they take his figure into account. If five years ago communism prevented Albania from gaining European acceptance, today it is again a country that is trying to keep it away from it. It cannot yet accept a man who comes from the dictator's villa and still continues to impose his own rights of every kind. This is also another proof of Nano's Leninism and of such consequences that leave everything very quickly. The story of the man who will come to lead Albania will also bear the burden on the country's future. He is the future prime minister, who is still at fault for hindering the development of his own country. B.K.

Today the fraudster may request a postponement of the trial ON PAGE 4

The prosecutor's office completes the investigation into the assassin of Shkallnuer ON PAGE 4

Monday: Five killed in the capital ON PAGE 4