Tens of thousands of residents of the capital demonstrate in the square and “Skënderbej” and “Demokracia”, on the seventh anniversary of the overthrow of the dictator. Extraordinary meeting of the National Council of the PD Photo: with Skerdilin Shtjefni[?] Statement of the National Council of the Democratic Party The technical government normalizes the situation Former chairman of the FRPD: New elections Watchful dogs, the new chairman of the FRPD, as the fifth congress of the young democrats concluded its work yesterday Berisha: “We will not go to Europe with gangs and dyed commandos” The Democratic Party of Albania with hundreds and thousands of its activists, students and professors, the independent trade unions and the entire Albanian opposition gathered yesterday at 15:30 in front of the Presidency, in the 36th anti-communist protest. The National Council of the PDSH met yesterday morning at the “Tirana” hotel and unanimously approved the Declaration “For a technical government”. The civic gathering, which lasted about three hours and was organized on the occasion of 20 February, the seventh anniversary of the toppling of the dictator’s statue, was peaceful and very widely attended. Assessing 20 February as “one of the most important events in the modern history of Albania”, the former chairman of the PDSH, Sali Berisha, said that “20 February is the day of freedom for Albanians, the day of separation from communism, the day of the triumph of Europe and Western culture in Albania”. He added that “the only way for Albania to become Albania again, a European Albania, is to remove at all costs the power of the neo-communist clique”. Sali Berisha accused the political class that came to power after the June elections of being responsible for the situation in the country and said that “you do not go to Europe with gangs and commandos”. “Political crime exploits the state, drugs, prostitution, murders and thefts. I tell the new blocmen that their mission has failed,” Berisha said. At this gathering, the new chairman of the Youth Forum of the Democratic Party, Belind Këlliçi[?], emphasized that “20 February is the day of Albanian youth”.

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The National Council of the PDSH examined the situation in the country at an extraordinary meeting and ultimately chose the new movement. The deputy chairman of the PDSH, Tritan Shehu, stated that from this large civic gathering comes a clear message to those who usurped power by force: their time is running out. He assessed that a technical government is the necessary solution for creating the conditions for free and fair elections and for restoring democratic order in the country. The declaration of the National Council emphasized that the country is in a deep political, economic and social crisis and that the current government has failed to guarantee order, law and the normal functioning of the state. The declaration called for the mobilization of all opposition forces and citizens in defense of democracy and the country's institutions.

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