Yesterday, thousands of citizens against the assembly of committees Democrats’ protest over parliament The PD denounces the government’s budget policies: It is a brake on the economy; it is a budget of unemployment, inflation and smuggling Yesterday, the Socialist Party together with its allies in power held in the Parliament chamber that meeting which they call a session and which in fact is only the latest farce. It would be a plenary session of the Assembly of Albania if the constitutional procedures and the rules of procedure were respected, as representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe also advised yesterday. It would be a parliamentary session if it were convened by the majority of this parliament’s deputies and not by the false number of 73 deputies of the socialist parliamentary minority. It would also be a parliamentary session if it were chaired by the legitimate Speaker of the Assembly, Mr Arbnori, and not by the presiding officer Gjinushi, who has usurped the office of the Speaker of the Assembly. It cannot be called such because the majority of the deputies of the Albanian parliament, and with them the entire Albanian people, are boycotting it. The opposition considers it a socialist-anarchist parliament, a parliament of force, a parliament of violence, a parliament of crime and an unconstitutional parliament. The distorting process of the chaotic [?] elections of 29 June has transformed an artificial socialist majority into a real parliamentary minority that seeks to impose that minority on Albanians through violence. We accepted the election result precisely in the hope that stability would be created in the country. In these 4 weeks, this artificial majority has proven the opposite. It has fuelled the political crisis by appointing, in flagrant violation of the Constitution, the candidate for Speaker of Parliament, thereby denying the opposition its constitutional position. It has attempted to eradicate political pluralism in Albania by force and without parliament. It is trying to establish in its place the power of committees, the power of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arbitrary power, the power of arbitrariness and disregard for democratic rights and freedoms. The Socialist government that emerged from the distorting electoral process of 29 June, which the people call the government of the committees, has today presented in that illegitimate meeting what it calls its programme. What are the qualities of the programme presented? Its programme consists of 13 chapters. 10 of them are completely meaningless and without purpose. The programme never mentions the person, the citizen, or his family. It reduces them to consumers and taxpayers, as in a nameless time. The programme of the Socialist government is a programme for an Albania without a middle class, without trade unions, without pluralism and without an independent opposition. It is a programme that evokes in Albanians the words and slogans of 1945. The programme is anti-reform. It seeks to place, before economic reform, its political reformatting, that is, the power of the committees. Likewise, the Socialist government presented what it called the draft budget for the country. First of all, the budget presented is not an anti-crisis budget. It is a budget without objectives, without hope because of short memory, without real measures for economic growth and production, a brake on economic growth. It is a budget of unemployment, inflation and smuggling. More than ever, this budget serves clientelist and party interests; it shows that this power, set up to impose itself, is not thinking about Albanian citizens. For this reason, hundreds of thousands of Albanians are protesting in front of Parliament against this parliament, against this government, and are demanding through the force of the free vote that they leave. Yesterday, in front of the Parliament headquarters

All democrats together against censorship Today, on 24 July 1998, at 19:00, a protest rally is being organized by “Bashkimi për Demokraci” in front of the RTSH building in Italy Square, against the topic and the non-implementation of the “Arbnori Amendment”.

Xhevat Koça leads the slaughter Irrit e Gjonas to scratch floors with waves of propaganda pages and monopolize the media. The son of Fejzo Koça, the son as well, the socialist philosopher of slogans in “Ladorovë”[?] At first there was blind hatred, fanaticism, dogmatism, inquisition and fanaticism. Now the new “dawn” of socialism has come. Albania attracts attention for arms trafficking, a thoroughly Christian institution[?]. SPECIAL ON PAGE 7

Nano government budget generates smuggling Does the budget need a budget and something with help? 7 times more increases it with [?!] the 32% overall indicator? It is [?] through the government tax? [text partially illegible] In the absence of the 1997 budget, 7 times more than [illegible text] 5 and [illegible text] ON PAGE 5

Nano’s Mr. Bojdani, a declared murderer, brutally beats the “Albania” journalist in Fier The government, violence against journalists Nano’s Mr. Bojdani, a declared murderer, brutally beats the “Albania” journalist in Fier ON PAGE 4

If five hands of dust could have been an operative, the general director, Fation Alia, Velio Feziun[?], a fixer in Mingo, proposes neutrality through censorship. This is what Klosi refers to Kadare’s spy, director at RTSH If five hands of dust could have been an operative, the general director, Fation Alia, Velio Feziun[?], a fixer in Mingo, proposes neutrality through censorship. Klosi ON PAGE 8

Minister Malaj and chief customs officer Bleta, mysterious trip to the customs offices Secret customs documents disappear Minister Malaj and chief customs officer Bleta, mysterious trip to the customs offices Documents [?], evidence of the entry of goods and of VAT payment have become the object of a theft at the General Directorate of Customs. In this case all the documentation has disappeared, documentation essential for identifying all customs officers and [illegible text] ON PAGE 4

Gallbard: Marxists within the KLA worry the USA The KLA is discussed in the American cells Gallbard: Marxists within the KLA worry the USA INTERV. Robert Gallbard, the American official in charge of security issues in the Balkans. He is concerned about the alignment of [illegible text] Albanians and describes the orientation of the KLA leaders as Marxist. Consultation of the Agreements [illegible text] ON PAGE 5

Fatos Klosi has produced the document on Zogaj “He” and SHIK do not deny the President’s adviser, accusing the spies of 8 June ON PAGE 3