As 6 November approaches, the day of the people’s NO against the legalization of arbitrariness Arbnori proposes a new parliamentary committee?! As 6 November approaches, the day of the people’s NO against the legalization of arbitrariness The Democratic Party is preparing a new constitutional game Arbnori proposes a new parliamentary committee?! Namik Dokle: "Albania needs a constitution as soon as possible, and for this it also has obligations before the UN Security Council. Obligations which Berisha and his clan have still not taken into account ... the will of the majority on the “constitutional issue” must be respected, and the will of the majority is the will of the opposition parties, who, with their restraint and the alternative they presented, rejected Berisha’s project". Skënder Gjinushi: "The PD has destroyed the Constitution. It is not implementing any law, it is not respecting the freedoms and human rights as also shown by Article 3 of the law on genocide. And then it still wants a constitution. With a party that does not respect constitutional provisions, it is absurd to think that a constitution can be made". Read on page 3

Editorial note A serious event shook the capital the day before yesterday in the morning: an 11-year-old child was kidnapped in the school yard. The official press was finally forced to acknowledge the incident, with great delay. The government in power, engaged in “fighting” yesterday’s genocide from 50 years ago, has “forgotten” that it has genocide every day in the center of Tirana. The policy being practiced by the current authorities in Albania is not limited to a single incident but is a pattern. Otherwise, how can it be explained that the police chief who beats prisoners in their cells almost to the point of death is “rewarded” these days with nothing more than a 500-dollar fine! In Shkodër, the 21st murder was committed these days, but the police do not know where the perpetrators of these crimes are. In the Ministry of the Interior, the minister or the number-one police chief are asking for applause for the “successful” fight against crime! Meanwhile, in almost all cases when the leaders of the Socialist Party, those of the PSD or of the PAD, seek to meet with people, the police are on alert. Not to protect these meetings from provocateurs, who are never lacking, but to provoke violence and tension themselves, as has happened in Vlorë, Lushnjë, Tirana, and most recently in Mat. The aim is thus to apply the policy of the stick against the opposition. These bread-for-criminals and stick-for-the-opposition positions provide the best portrait of the democatury that has been installed in Albania. But these facts and these attitudes also speak, at the very least, of two methods of implementing state policy: first, the increase of the police presence in political activities accompanying the pre-election campaign, giving the whole state a military color; and second, the undeniable truth that criminalized elements have become the only support of the ruling party in maintaining its rule by undemocratic methods. The policy of the bread and the stick shows how far the current leaders of power in Albania are from true democracy and the rule of law. Correction The title of yesterday’s editorial should be read as “FALSE POLL”. We apologize for this technical error.

Parliament: The President, Parliament and the government are from now on exempt from customs duties in the amount of 500 million lekë (old). Parliament: The state abolishes customs duties for the state The President, Parliament and the government are from now on exempt from customs duties in the amount of 500 million lekë (old). This was decided yesterday in Parliament by the majority of votes of the Democratic Party deputies, who every day more and more “rack their brains over how to solve the people’s problems” Page 4

Interview with the chairman of the steering committee of the Socialist Party in Korçë, Niko Pandeli Read on page 2

Elbasan Page 6

Chairman of the Socialist Party, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, Sofia. Dear Mr. Vidanov We learned with particular pleasure of the convincing victory of the Bulgarian Socialist Party in the local elections of 29 October 1995. The current victory, after last December’s one in the parliamentary general elections, clearly demonstrates the continued growth in the popularity of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and of the Bulgarian socialist electorate. It is the result of governing ability and of the attractive force of the realistic and deeply social alternative that the Socialist Party and Government are successfully implementing during this period. This has made it possible to strengthen the conviction among the broad masses of the friendly Bulgarian people for a better future and to eliminate the defects and problems created by the previous right-wing government. Your achievements and successes in building a true legal state and a market economy with a human dimension are also a support and encouragement for Albanian socialists and progressive forces in general. On this occasion, allow me, dear friend, to express to you the most sincere and fraternal congratulations, as well as my best wishes for even greater achievements in the future. Deputy Chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania Dr. Servet Pëllumbi Tirana, 1 November 1995