The Meksi government is reaping what it has sown A view from yesterday in Tirana Read more in detail on pages 3 and 7

Note of the day The DP is finding comfort in the year 1990. “Even then there were queues for bread and milk, say its agitators, who themselves also stand in line for bread in the cold of these days.” It is almost as if one were saying: we had been longing for queues! The propaganda carried out these days in the queues is not naive. It aims to push people into making comparisons with four years ago. There were queues then too, and now there are fewer. That means we are better off today than yesterday. So, better with today, with the DP. This is the logic of the DP’s propaganda, which wants to erase one time from conversations: the future. That is why they also made the comparison as they did with ’39. So, compared with 1939, we are better off, we have made progress ... Then the fantastic figures of growth compared with zero level come out. But the reasoning people make today is simpler: even those who have moved ahead, have built wealth; even those who have built villas and those who have kiosks, and many others who have nothing, know that this is the result of free work, in a system of property pluralism that began to move in Albania even before the DP came to power. If there is a yardstick that measures the government, it is precisely the queues. Queues that do not arise from shortages for objective reasons, but from the wrong policy that governs by destroying domestic bread production and from a lack of foresight. A policy that has no perspective and is linked only to keeping power in the hands of those who have it today. The armchair policy will inevitably bring, as it has brought, the policy of queues as well. Th. Gëllçi

When it is insisted that the law of the ruling party will be democratic... When it is insisted that the law of the ruling party will be democratic, but that there will be a few “small corrections,” because Albania needs stability, that immediately reminds one of Mussolini’s language as well Page 4

With the deputy chairman of the PSSH Ilir Meta How does the PSSH assess Albania’s relations with China? The PSSH has also stated in its program the importance it attaches to Albania’s relations with China. This is linked to China’s role in international institutions. As is known, it is one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. In this context, its international support for Albania and the Albanian issue is also important. But China can make an important contribution to the recovery of our economy, bearing in mind the renewal of a good part of the technology we have inherited, which, as is known, is Chinese. We have been and are in favor of renewing Albanian-Chinese relations on new foundations in favor of mutual interest. How do you assess the visit that President Berisha is making these days to China? We want the visit of the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, to help precisely in the renewal of Albanian-Chinese relations in a new spirit, free from ideological prejudices, but with understanding and mutual interest.

PASOK gathered yesterday afternoon to choose the successor to Prime Minister Papandreou... PASOK gathered yesterday afternoon to choose the successor to Prime Minister Papandreou, who officially resigned. Simitis, after succeeding, became Prime Minister of Greece. In the first round of voting there were two candidates, Simitis and Xaoxopulos. In the second round, PASOK socialist deputies gave Simitis 86 votes and candidate Xaoxopulos 75. Mr. Simitis has served in the so-called socialist government of Papandreou since 1981. He has held the posts of Minister of Agriculture, National Economy, Education and Industry. Athens sources say that in his cabinet, Simitis will keep the posts of Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, thus ensuring continuity of economic policy. But these sources believe that important changes will be made among the other ministers. Cuts will be made in public spending so that Greece can achieve development rates on a par with its other European Union partners. No significant changes are expected in Greece’s foreign policy toward the neighboring Balkan countries. Xaoxopullos had led the Greek government since the period of Papandreou’s illness. He had promised to continue the same political line as Papandreou. Within three days the new Prime Minister Simitis must form the new cabinet and present it to Parliament.

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