The people’s pockets will be emptied even more - The people will pay higher taxes and duties in 1994. - Around 60–65 percent of civil employees in the budgetary system will pay tax on their personal income (salaries). - The peasantry under the blow of taxes. EMIGRANTS AND BUSINESSMEN: - Customs duties on the purchase of cars and motorcycles are increased, and taxes for their registration are raised. - Turnover tax will also be extended to tractors, machinery and agricultural tools that are imported and that are produced in the country. - Higher excise duties on coffee, cigarettes, drinks, etc. - The increase in taxes and duties will lead to a new rise in prices. (Read on page 2)

Parallel Why I Dissolve Parliament (From the letter that the President of Italy, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, sent on 16 January this year to the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Italian Parliament) This Parliament, which legislated and lived through the full term, fulfilled, in particularly exceptional circumstances, the necessary institutional and political duties essential to the life of the state. It is true that, in democratic and constitutional life, the physiological duration of institutions is defined as a rule and as a norm. However, the very fact that the Constitution accepts and regulates the possibility of the early ending of a legislature should lead us to judge this event as being just as much in harmony with the dialectic of the life of our institutions, an event therefore which, while constituting an exception to the rule, must necessarily be clearly and precisely motivated. Thus, the reasons for this are today present, with particular clarity, in the current extraordinary political moment. Today, therefore, there are meaningful facts that justify, indeed make obligatory, the early dissolution of the Chambers. The most striking fact is the result of the referendum on the essential and profound change of the political electoral system, which was made such and previously tested through popular voting[?]. The second fact is the double tension of the electorate, in June and November 1993, which highlighted a clear mismatch between the forces represented today in parliament and the renewed popular will[?], profound changes within the electorate itself and in the very organized political reality. But what is true in this broad and essential change, clearly expressed twice last year by such a large electorate, has left deep marks on the alignment of the political forces present in Parliament and, consequently, on the functioning of the Chambers themselves, especially because it has become increasingly difficult for them to act continuously, compromising and calling into question their representative strength. And now it is up to the voters, whose independence is the guarantee of republican democracy, resting on intelligence, on will, on participation, on the sense of duty of every citizen. (According to the newspaper «La Repubblica», 17 January 1994).

The Sultan of Brunei, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izadiu Wadaulah, has highly praised Albania’s democratic achievements These days the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum began in Davos, Switzerland, where heads of state, presidents of major companies among the most important in the whole world, industrialists and prominent businesspeople take part. This year, in the correct annual meeting halls, this gathering of particular importance takes place, but for the past three years Albania has been a participant with interest. In 1991 it was Fatos Nano and Muhamet Kapllani, in 1992 Gramoz Pashko, and in 1993 the President of the Republic himself, Sali Berisha, accompanied by a television crew who prepared a highly promising democratic documentary. Albania, favored in Europe, the communist region, in the detachments of Asia, Switzerland[?], President of Europe[?]... This year, unlike last year, the state television was made up of the news that President Berisha had met in Malaysia and Brunei with the magnificent sultan and had received so many gifts that they cannot even be remembered, including fully loaded houses full of dollars. The Albanians heard these news, heard them on many occasions, and in Strasbourg, they ask: why does our honored President not go to Davos? Why perhaps is there still work? Europe[?]. It is not the fault of this country if it was said that it is beautiful, capable of great politics and that Europe has no substitute. We are the ones who, from our position, should build the noblest links between East and West, between Islam and Christianity, between tradition and Western states; we are the center of convergence and he, the RDN(?), perhaps understood this better than Berisha himself! The Balkans and Albania today have many wise friends; ordinary Albanians should not be afraid of chaos, fate, harems, harem-dwellers, crocodiles. Everything is corrupt and destabilizing propaganda. More valuable than words and speeches without bread. For example, if Albania were to breed crocodiles, all Europe would import from us this precious and sought-after good and earn dollars and dollars. The ordinary Albanian should no longer hope when all the embassies of Western countries close their doors to him and do not give him a visa, and when at the airport they check his passport with a magnifying glass. He can go without a visa to Malaysia and Brunei, even to Brunei. The ordinary Albanian should not be afraid when neighbors with weapons threaten him from the border with barriers, armored vehicles, ferries and soldiers— the winds are not cut off. They can very easily go to work in Brunei where, as they say, the sultan has plenty of dollars and will hand out a wallet to each of his citizens. The ordinary Albanian does not understand these things because he has not yet come out and has not seen them. Therefore he does not know why the news says that Albania is not going to Davos, Switzerland, or why it is not accepted into the Council of Europe and why we are better than all the other countries of the East. He does not know what it has done with the group heading toward Europe that passes through Asia and Africa. So he only needs to read RDN, or the television where they say that the Sultan of Brunei, His Majesty Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzadiu Wadaulah, has praised the democratic achievements in Albania. Then, before the journalist begins to get bored by this event, the Albanian will go calmly to stand in line to get salami. THOMA GELCI

- Miguel Martinez gives the aesthete-studier a lesson in expression. - Cassandra speaks differently in space and time: In Stinjan(?) Nano is supposedly a thief, in Strasbourg suspected of abuse of office and corruption. “A party leader cannot be jailed, oh in Strasbourg, the deputy Fatos Nano is the suspect. Precisely for serious facts proven guilty. The fact that Nano was kept in prison for so long shows that they have no facts[?] in the speech of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Martinez, followed by ‘I say this not to move even a bit to replace Fatos Nano, Krasnik or Andreotti, but to express my opinion on a principle. I say this and I would say it even if it were about you, that a deputy, even in front of Berisha, if someone accuses him tomorrow. Someone commented on these words as normal for such a personality. Someone as ‘Bum, concerning the “Nano case.” Someone as a lesson in expression and in the act of expressing oneself by Mr. Martinez toward the scholar of aesthetics, the chairman of the Democratic Party, the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on foreign relations, the chairman of the Albanian delegation, who after coming before Mr. Martinez’s speech had said: ‘for this justice must speak, the responsible one is he (Nano). In short, you, the doubts of this invented prohibition and corruption and for corruption the prime minister must be.’ The strange fate of Parliament concerns Nano, strangely we are allowed to meet, the “count of guilt” the accusation in his accusatory speech. Strangely Cassandra speaks differently in space and differently in time, differently in Albania, differently in Strasbourg. In Albania Nano is an ordinary criminal thief, murderer[?] of the PD[?], linked to Stru[?] with corruption, whereas in Strasbourg he exerts pressure on an Assembly of Selmi expressed in June the contemptuous deputy of the 6 months to deal with the “Nano case?” Perhaps both together. But yes, at the end of the month Fatos Nano completed 6 months in prison because, regardless of what has been said, the true criminal act is this one, which is finally acknowledged by Mr. Selami, a scandalous truth for anyone who hears it, why above all. A truth that bears on its shoulders the shame of imprisoning the people’s deputy, the leader of the largest opposition party, without facts, only on suspicion. A truth ultimately laden with the shame of a war without principle(?) by the authorities to eliminate political opponents, to eliminate the opposition. And yet Fatos Nano «continues» to be in prison. The imprisonment has broken every legal norm and procedure for a deputy. Precisely for this reason, 23 deputies of the Albanian Parliament are protesting the violation of deputies’ rights. But from the reaction in the hall, Mr. Pjetër, in order to eliminate the debate, will prepare for the deputies another «day», perhaps even more. Precisely for this reason, 700 thousand people, in a silent democratic protest, expressed some months ago their protest over the use of imprisonment against deputy Fatos Nano. Precisely for this reason, the chairman of the Committee on relations with non-member countries, Mr. Atkinson, when he was in Tirana, stated that there can be no democracy in a country that imprisons the leader of the opposition. Precisely for this reason, Mr. Atkinson said to the democrat Mr. Martinez: “I have read the Constitutional Court’s decision on the Nano case and it seemed unjust to me.” Precisely for this reason, Mr. Alexander Langer speaks out against the imprisonment of a deputy after immunity is lifted. Epta[?] dadjet have long since fallen. “Now only the strike is intensifying, we see there is nothing else. But the power has not yet fallen into normal classification. Only two months have passed, unlike a few months ago. Bottles; oxygen was not in Europe? The trial with twenty of their extraordinary circumstances” identify the location of the bottles. It is Malaysia. Brunei. There, the Orient! Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because he refuses to put a reed on his head and take the proclamation in hand (these are things for someone else to know), they are kept in prison for Fatos Nano. And the clock, who guarantees it: who will fix it, and who will resolve this Albanian shame democratically? ENCO DUKA

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