Another unconstitutional law is approved only with the votes of the PD The "Berisha Law" or the "law of political blood feud," announced in the press as an initiative by a group of pro-government intellectuals, arrived yesterday in the Albanian Parliament to take the votes of the people's deputies. Albanian democracy suffered yet another crisis yesterday, widening the gap toward a neo-dictatorship in Albania. The only element that separates democracy from dictatorship—the right to be elected—was yesterday attempted to be taken away from an entire political group aligned with the Albanian political opposition. Even though the votes of the single-color majority were in favor of abolishing this right, Albanian constitutional law seems to have remained once again on the side of this political grouping that was attempted to be expelled from the temple of democracy. Yesterday's vote was reflected in the general debate held throughout the day. Berisha's supporters, or "his marionettes"—as the opposition called them—insisted on not rejecting and approving this law, making incriminating insinuations about the PS and other opposition representatives. Meanwhile, their political opponents, the opposition forces, condemned the crimes of the former dictatorship and stressed that Albanian legislation—for which all deputies have voted—had been sufficient to penalize perpetrators of crime in time. The dividing line in positions, announced in the press, appeared yesterday in Parliament first from Arbnori. "In these three years no political trial was held, but so that no staged trials are repeated again" "The Berisha Law" or the "law of political blood feud," announced in the press as an initiative by a group of pro-government intellectuals, arrived yesterday in the Albanian Parliament to take the votes of the people's deputies. Albanian democracy suffered yet another crisis (continued on page 4) An anti-law that will not last long Servet Pëllumbi: "We are clear about it, and we will try to make it clear to everyone, that Berisha, with the notorious anti-genocide law, which will go down in history as the 'Berisha Law,' intends to pave the way for the use of genocide in the upcoming elections, adding to the 'May 1994 bouquets,' gathered in Libofshë, the September bouquets gathered in Kasacion, the October ones, and so on until the elections. And then what for the winter months, when 'flowers' are harder to find, have Berisha's and PD's schemes devised? So, gentlemen deputies, the anti-genocide draft law is a bluff. Both in its content and in the time chosen to discuss and approve it in parliament, it is diametrically opposed to the logical course of democratic processes; therefore I invite you to say a firm "NO." Pages 2-3-4 You began this parliament in shame and you are ending it in shame

...Even Tansu Ciller, the prime minister of friendly Turkey, resigned. We underline: No one is surprised by this act of hers, just as no one was surprised when U.S. President Nixon resigned, when former Italian Prime Minister Andreotti resigned several times, when the "Iron Lady," former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, resigned, when the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned, when the first president of pluralist and democratic Albania, Ramiz Alia, resigned, when "New Democracy," Konstantinos Mitsotakis, resigned, when he resigned. Only Prime Minister Meksi and the Albanian officials stand like monuments of culture in the chairs they have taken.

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