Interview with MP Sabit Brokaj after returning from the seminar organized by the French foundation “Ent Liberté” Page 3

Editorial Two days ago a faculty of a zëm[?] surprised the Albanian world with a poll: DP will win the coming elections with 58 percent of the vote. The paradox of this poll is the shame of its authors. On 22 March '92, the Democratic Party, 14 months after its creation, without anyone knowing how it could govern Albania, won more than 62 percent of the votes of the Albanian electorate, becoming the most successful opposition party in the entire former communist East, as the leaders of this party have loudly proclaimed. The special feature known as a poll and bearing a semi-anonymous signature, dressed up in a university wrapper, after three and a half years of DP rule, does not rise even one step above the result of 22 March '92; on the contrary, it goes downhill. It is an absurdity that shames the authors of this poll. But above all it puts the leaders of the Democratic Party, its leadership, in an awkward position, who, like the well-known swamp frog of the fairy tale, swelling and swelling, have known nothing else during the past four and a half years except grand achievements, only high rates, the highest peaks in Eastern Europe, only impressive successes, only support from every side, more precisely from the whole world, for their work. The latest DP poll cannot withstand the advertising with which it was promoted. Three and a half years of DP rule seem to have disappointed quite a few people, about 10 percent of its electorate. And this is said by a poll manufactured in the offices of the DP. Apparently the sun cannot be covered with a sieve. The authors of this poll, which reeks of adventurism, even though it bears a university diploma, are not concerned with THE TRUTH, as far as a poll can be true, but with keeping their hold on power at all costs, regardless of what numbers may appear in one or in 100 polls. This is a masquerade. This is a great deception. This is a mockery of public opinion. This is also the crisis of the authors of this poll.

The flip side of Berisha's visit to the USA With the exception of the two live interviews given to the Washington Post and the CNN channel, which could just as well have been conducted in Tirana, Berisha's visit to the USA passed in total silence. Not a single American television channel, not a single newspaper, national or local, with the exception of some well-known Boston newspapers such as “Boston Globe” that harshly criticized Berisha's policy for violating human rights, freedom of the press, the imprisonment of his political opponents, such as F. Nano, the failure to respect the rights of the Greek minority, gave even the slightest notice of this visit ... Taken from Albanian Herald, October '95 Page 3

- Gregor Gysi won in eastern Germany and Berlin, just as Gyula Horn won in Hungary; Kwaśniewski in Poland and Zhan Videnov in Bulgaria. Or, as expected, according to the “laboratory” data from Berlin and all of Eastern Europe, Fatos Nano and his party in Albania After a deserved victory of the anti-totalitarian political forces, except in Romania, the rightists came to power everywhere. It has now been three years since the cycle of their leaving power and of giving popular confidence to left-wing political parties has been operating, parties which are mainly made up of strong alliances of former moderate communists with socialists and social-democrats. Throughout Eastern Europe only two “islands” have now remained outside this fate: the Czech Republic and Albania. This is simply because parliamentary elections have not been held. To look at this political phenomenon we can lower the scale of observation of the analysis. We have a laboratory today, just as we did at the end of 1989. This is Berlin... Berlin is Europe in reduced dimensions. There, in one city, are both its post-communist east and its capitalist west. Observe Berlin and you will draw infallible conclusions about what happens and what is a social phenomenon in the East and West of the continent. Willy Brandt Page 2

George Soros “The aim of the Soros foundation network is to give impetus to open society. The concept of open society is based on the acceptance of the fact that people act on beliefs that are known, not for[?] and that no one possesses the ultimate truth. This leads to respect for the law, to a society not dominated by the state, to the existence of democratic governance, to a market economy, and, above all, to respect for the views and opinions of minorities. The key point worth knowing is that an open society is more complex and more sophisticated than a closed society. A closed society spends all its energies on preserving the existing system, whereas an open society takes law and order as its starting point and creates progress and prosperity from that base. This means that an open society is more desirable, but also a more vulnerable structure”. Page 4

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