There are 13 parties from across the entire Albanian political spectrum that unite to defend the existing electoral law The Democratic Party, which boasts of having friends all over the world, who pray day and night for Berisha’s victory in the elections, is left alone at home and without any allies. . With a few improvements, these parties consider the current law a modern, democratic law suited to our country. This common position of the 13 political parties was reached by consensus after their discussion at the round table. Also invited to the meeting were representatives of the Democratic Party, who, on the pretext that they were not prepared to express their views on the law, did not take part in the round table. Only Laço has been left..... On page 3: Chronicle from the press conference of Mr. Sabri Godo and the joint declaration of the 13 political parties

Editorial The meeting of the General Steering Committee of the Socialist Party is an important political event in its life, because the more time passes, the more socialists are convinced that the future belongs to them. It is the convincing alternatives presented to the electorate by this party, the main factor behind the fact that it has today become a modern Western-style social democratic party, which in the fair electoral struggle for power enjoys the trust of the majority of the people. Hence comes the optimism that whenever the elections are decreed, the PS will see itself, with the free vote of the people, as a governing force. That is why this meeting marked an extremely serious moment in its life. That is why this meeting also drew the attention of the country’s public opinion, which wants to know what the PS does, when it knows how it takes part in the electoral game. In responding to these demands from the electorate, the day before yesterday’s meeting of the General Steering Committee of the PS decided to call the Party Congress after the electoral campaign has been decreed. The game of the PD and President Berisha is that, having the decree of the campaign in their hands, they would throw the Socialist Party into adventure, tire it out in political struggle, heighten its obsessions, and frighten the socialist electorate. A party like the PS, which is able to convene its Congress at any time, the highest Forum that leads it, did not enter politics to submit to the cat-and-mouse game played by the current rulers in Albania. On the contrary, it is the Democratic Party, which, badly divided for personal and clan interests, not only throughout this final year of its term in office has failed to do what is lawful, but is forced to carry out deep operations in its body, weakened by corruption and abuse of power, and yet its congress or national assembly cannot be convened no matter what. In democracy, political life is laid out in plain view. The electorate judges you every day, separates the wheat from the chaff, words from deeds, distinguishes seriousness in every step taken by the socialists from the adventurous Persian-style game of its political opponents. At the last meeting of the General Steering Committee of the PPSH, the Central Electoral Commission was approved as (continued on page 3)

Berisha’s recent visits were more of an attempt to powder the gloomy image of the ruling party with a European dimension, although very belated. Instead of real success, those visits showed more pomp and political cosmetics of a decadent kind, as well as the typical Western courtesy that so nicely says its well-thought-out "No". Page 4

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Two interviews -With Prof. Dr. Fatmir Shehu Page 5

-With director Gezim Kame Page 10

Written by a member of Kosovo’s parliament The democrats of Sali Berisha, in order to qualify the past, should take as an example the political and national movement of the Albanians of Kosovo Page 11