The Ministry gives no explanations about the representatives of “Union for Democracy” on the CEC ON PAGE 3

The Criminal Police are ordered to keep watch on suspicious individuals ON PAGE 3

Nano should resign unconditionally and a new government should be elected ON PAGE 3

Scandal! The Albanian banking system in the hands of the political mafia. Mafioso bankers using forged documents rob deposits and current accounts at the Savings Bank A dark omen for all Albanian citizens who have their savings, capital and blood in the Savings Bank. The Director General during the Democratic Party government had been reported to the prosecutor’s office for serious financial violations ON PAGE 3

Police mistreat the publisher of the newspaper “Bota sot”, Mr. Xhavit Mazrekaj, at Rinas airport Baleta: “This is not a simple incident, but has a specific political and intelligence-related context and subtext. I would like the public to be made aware of this; for your information, “Bota sot” is a newspaper that has really ruffled the feathers of Serbian chauvinists” ON PAGE 4

Gjirokastër’s elected officials send Nano an ultimatum Gjirokastër’s local government gives Nano until September. Regarding all its concerns and demands. At a meeting of local government representatives held yesterday in Gjirokastër, at the initiative of the PD branch headed by secretary Adriatik Islami, all the concerns of the local government were examined and discussed, and it is treated by the government as the opposition. ON PAGE 2

. Dissatisfied, one law and three other draft laws expected to be passed have been drawn up by the Council of Ministers, together with their respective explanatory reports. All the government’s drafts that have become laws, or are expected to become laws, have prompted reactions from public opinion, opposition political forces, particular groups and sections of citizens, or those defending their interests. At the heart of all the reactions to the laws that have been passed, or the draft laws awaiting passage, is concern about the creation of structures that abuse power, its concentration in the hands of the prime minister, the violation and serious infringement of the principles and norms that protect human rights, and, above all, the alarm that democracy and its principles are being undermined in Albania. The Law on the Intelligence Service, the draft law on State Secrets, the Law on the Collection of Weapons, the draft law on Public Radio and Television, and several other proposals drawn up by the Government of Fatos Nano, or its structures, have been widely described as laws or proposals that have nothing in common with a free, democratic and civil society, or with a state governed by the rule of law in which democratic rules and principles are respected. If we look back at the lifespan of the Nano government since it came to power on June 29 and at its legislative initiatives, it has displayed two trends in this regard. At the beginning, and during most of its year in government, Nano and his Government devoted themselves to changing organic or constitutional laws, with the sole aim of establishing and appointing the heads of various state institutions, from the head of RTSH to the head of the Court of Cassation, just a few weeks ago. New laws were passed for all these institutions, at the head of which Nano’s people were appointed—a precedent never before seen in a democratic country, where the law is changed through utterly absurd measures just to remove a director. Now that the period of changing the heads of institutions is over and the Prime Minister’s people have been appointed to lead them, the Government has taken up legislative initiatives that are utterly antidemocratic and dangerous to the future of democracy and the democratic order in the country. All these legislative initiatives appear to have been prompted by the panic and fear that have gripped Nano over losing power and seeing its foundations shaken. Watching the ground slip from beneath its feet, the Government has embarked on a series of antidemocratic legislative initiatives, hoping in this way to prolong its short life, if only a little. The Government’s legislative initiatives also show a tendency to use the law to conceal the numerous abuses of power committed by the Socialists so far. Money laundering, the surveillance of the opposition and citizens, political killings, and a number of other illegal acts by government officials are seeking shelter under antidemocratic provisions in laws that have been passed or are awaiting approval. Everything else, in an effort to protect itself from the brink of losing power, is pushing the Clique to draft and pass antidemocratic laws, which tomorrow will protect no officeholder, at any level, from the abuse of power they have committed over the course of a year. SH. PEPO SHI

While government officials have left for holidays abroad, the country has sunk into poverty and total misery

While government officials have left for holidays abroad, the country has sunk into poverty and total misery deepens the economic crisis The deep economic crisis, the lack of drinking water and electricity in the face of the indifference of government officials, clearly demonstrate this Government’s irresponsibility toward the people. This Government is not only irresponsible toward its citizens, but is also chiefly responsible for the deep crisis and total misery that have engulfed our entire country ON PAGE 5

The skinheads of Millosheviç are exploiting the indifference of the International Community ON PAGE 2

The Tirana Government is trying to maintain a formal distance from the conflict in Kosovo ON PAGE 2

After the ravings of the racist and fraudster Bolino Karlo Bolino spoke once again in his newspaper in the language of his predecessors who run the fascist newspaper in Albania, inciting it against Albanians during the years of the Second World War. Like a worthy disciple of those who, after singing the praises of the most terrible enemy of humanity at the time, established the newspaper by writing that they had fulfilled their mission, Mr. Bolino too once again demonstrated his Albanophobia and the hatred that comes close to racism toward the country where he has planted his feet, here, five years ago. Bolino should be proud to have been born in Italy, but deceiving Albanians by presenting his newspaper’s dark history as being in their favor means that he is nothing but a missionary of evil seeking to take root in this country. If there is one subject about which Bolino should remain silent, it is the history of his newspaper. Had he done so, perhaps no one would have held him responsible for things that happened more than 50 years ago. But the fact that he defends it fanatically, and that Bolino himself chose to inherit the name, proves beyond doubt that the parallel is complete and that “Gazeta Shqiptare” is just as anti-Albanian now as it was in the past, when the fight against fascism was being waged. But now that fascism is no longer grinding its teeth in preparation for a return, the demons of evil have found refuge in mafia organizations, or in services that pay enormous sums for contributions against particular peoples. Bolino has chosen the second path, to revive the interrupted legacy of “Gazeta Shqiptare” in Albania. Writing reports supposedly from Prizren after having had coffee in Tirana with employees of the Yugoslav embassy in Albania, in order to oppose the Albanians fighting in Kosovo—only Karlo Bolino could do that. Publishing articles received directly from SHIK, after they had first been written by Kastriot Islami—once again, only Mr. Bolino could do that. READ MORE ON PAGE 7 Headline in the old newspaper: «BARCELONA WAS OCCUPIED»