A protest rally in “Skënderbej” Square on October 22 The “League Against Dictatorship” invites all the citizens of Tirana to join a powerful protest on October 22 at 5:00 p.m.: 1. To protest the Government’s concealment of the organizers and perpetrators of Azem Hajdari’s murder. 2. To demand the release of political prisoners. 3. To protest the informational terror of the state media. 4. To protest unemployment, rising prices, insecurity, crime, and increasing poverty.

The clan battle continues behind the scenes of the Albanian left. The former Minister of the Interior is accused of abuse of office Minister of the Interior Petro Koçi rewards the committee bandits. The police are gripped by political purges, and public order by a wave of killings The clan battle continues behind the scenes of the Albanian left. The former Minister of the Interior is accused of abuse of office Nano wants Teta jailed Minister of the Interior Petro Koçi rewards the committee bandits. The police are gripped by political purges, and public order by a wave of killings

Anyone who has followed the process of drafting the constitution attentively cannot fail to be struck by the anxiety and haste accompanying the actions of the left-wing coalition in its efforts to pass the constitution. This haste is so great that at times one gets the impression that the political forces in this coalition are counting the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the day it is passed, with a strange sense of dread that they will struggle to reach the finish line. This haste is understandable, since these forces see the constitution as a patent certifying their political legitimacy. Obtaining this political patent is almost a matter of life and death for them; in their view, it will add at least a few days to their time in power. It does not matter to these political forces that this constitution will remind Albanians of Enver Hoxha’s constitution. Let us not forget that that constitution, like Stalin’s constitution and those of the communist dictators of the East, as well as dozens of other constitutions of this communist kind, had their main defect not in the articles written on paper, but in the procedures by which they were adopted and in how seriously their authors took them. In this respect, the constitution expected to be adopted differs in no way from Enver Hoxha’s constitution. The political process accompanying it, rather than being a process of public discussion and voters’ familiarization with the draft constitution, has turned into a propaganda farce and, worse still, a savage political crusade to denigrate and isolate the opposition from this process. This crusade has been so vicious that this constitution has now been christened not only with the rejection of the political dialogue offered by the opposition, but also with the imprisonment and bloodshed of its politicians, reaching its culmination with the murder of the Leader of the Opposition, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party, Azem Hajdari. This has made Albanians understand that, in passing this constitution, the Albanian left has sought to exclude the opposition from the country’s political life and from helping to resolve the country’s principal political problems. More than the adoption of a socialist constitution, what seems to have been of interest here is putting the opposition in the dock, to illustrate the accusations that communist propaganda has continually leveled against it—accusations whose sole purpose has been the ongoing subversion intended to turn it into a silent accomplice of “their humane government.” Nor is any of this changed by the tactic of replacing the central character, Nano, with his ever-menacing image, by Majko, whose character and image have paradoxically become more ferocious. Untroubled by the people and with their demagoguery, the Albanian socialists have declared that they will celebrate the November holidays with a great success: the constitution. It remains to be seen whether there is still anyone in Albania who has fallen victim to Enver Hoxha’s propaganda enough to believe such crude propaganda. It also remains to be seen whether anyone will be gullible enough to believe that a constitution adopted in this way will truly be the constitution Albanians aspire to—the constitution that will serve as the foundation of the state they so eagerly await and desire, and for which they have contributed so much, yet which Albanians have been made not to have. We shall also see whether, after the constitution, Fatos Nano will no longer be Fatos Nano of smuggling, corruption, and political killings; whether the Socialist Party and its allies will no longer be the substitutes for Albania and the destroyers of the state; whether public order will be established and unemployment reduced; whether market prices will fall and the work of saving Albania will succeed as much as they are trying to convince the electorate it will if the constitution is passed. But that is not all. It remains to be seen what position the political forces, and especially the opposition, will take toward this farce. Will it take a course that offers the development of the process from the outset, only to become an accomplice at the last moment in the gravest mockery of the fundamental law of the Albanian state? The most natural position would be to abstain in the referendum, which is so unlawful under the legality granted by the Albanian people, that 300 voters’ votes are enough to pass the constitution, as if it were a law on the judiciary. Meanwhile, this does not mean that the opposition should refrain from making a technical critique of the constitution and from playing its part in monitoring the referendum in accordance with the law, its legal rights, and its duties to its electorate and nation.

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The Government is not interested in finding those implicated in the murder of the opposition MP The daily press has directly accused SHIK of carrying out the assassination of Democratic Party MP Azem Hajdari, but the prosecutors have not taken into account a single line written in the newspapers about the most tragic murder to have taken place in Albania. Meanwhile, these special prosecutors are imprisoning opposition politicians every day, relying on what the left-wing press writes. ON PAGE 4

Public order is not established with a criminalized police force ON PAGE 4

Lubani: The Tirana Court is completely dependent on the Government ON PAGE 4

The former lecturer of the Albanian prime minister, chairman of the Tirana branch of the DP, speaks out ON PAGE 2

Today, 39 days since the murder of the December leader Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, a symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The governments of the former communists, who are free, and the so-called criminals who took the life of the December Leader, show Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the murderers, who have names and identities but are untouched by those in power. The Democrats and all the Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari can in no way tolerate this fact. The Government must either capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.

All avenues in the constitutional process have been forcibly closed to the opposition The chairman of the DP, Sali Berisha, said yesterday that the opposition has its own draft constitution, but that so far the authorities have given it no opportunity to present this draft, as a result of the dialogue being blocked. “We have not only objections, but also our own draft constitution. We hoped that through dialogue the two drafts could be merged into one, and then submitted as a single draft in the referendum. But the authorities have decided to exclude the opposition from drafting the constitution and to make a constitution for the minority alone,” said the DP chairman, for whom...

In the dormitories of medicine and engineering, and those of the students of the Institute of Physical Education: A lot of money and time wasted trying to find a bed Through the labyrinths where students live, besides the impossibility of living like human beings, one also feels the abandonment of education by the Albanian state, whose investment in it amounts to only 3 to 4% of GDP. ON PAGE 5

Public order is not established with Lubani: The Tirana Court is