Eurobarometer director Karl Hans Rajf: Brussels refutes the data published in Tirana The amount of information we have gathered does not justify speaking about the situation of the political parties at the time the poll was conducted, let alone making any prediction. This is the first time we have worked with this department, and the incident we are talking about does not help the chances of cooperating again. Page 2

Editorial The closer the moment of the announcement of the upcoming elections comes, the more room on the Albanian political scene is being taken up by the tricks of the old war-horse, the tricks of the meteorology and agronomy station, in order to throw and direct, confuse and reassure, news and information. In this arena of battle, the PD and its leadership have invented a fashionable phenomenon, the “front” framework of the cup. The targets are being swallowed by attacks from all the opposition in the conditions of an opposition liveliness, the figures and methods published and stamped by foreign and domestic institutions, against the Socialist Party and against the opposition, with the aim of clarifying and masking the real enemies of the enemy. We have seen a training game, the bunkerization of Albanian politics in the phase of re-emergence that careerists are following to understand their own "front", red and not-red, as the “front” of war. The column of the material makes up the bureaucratic centers of the title. Usually, with the aim of prolonging the Albanian "crisis", the opposition framework and its groupings are weakened in a daily campaign in which the scenarios of the “front” of the assembly are being made. Nothing more than political burdens are gathered in this preface to opinion and analysis. Instead of the campaign making an anthology of genuine propaganda, it builds a structure that comes as a signal from offices and circles, as a staged protest against different thinking and the right to speak. This rhetoric of aggressiveness is nothing more than a reflex of fear of free judgment. It shows that power does not trust argument, but the mechanism of imposition. If one term were needed for this way of political behavior, it would be precisely the bunkerization of politics. Continues on page 4

Sali Berisha and his clan have lost the point The statement of the PSSH leadership published in "Zëri i popullit" on 11 February 1996, where the PS campaign is denounced and carried out by political analysts close to the government and its police for electoral and political purposes of its leadership, has taken aim at the PD and at realizing the political and electoral underdevelopment of the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha. In this statement, the Socialist Party of Albania emphasizes that the manipulation of the data published by the US Department of State and the interventions of the socialist electoral leadership. The leadership of the Socialist Party holds a seminar on organizing the election campaign On 13.02.1996, the leadership of the Socialist Party held a seminar on organizing the development of the election campaign. It was divided according to functions and sectors, discussing the current situation and the action program of the meeting and of the party structures in this important period. The seminar discussed at length the reform in governance, ways of communicating with the public, increasing citizen participation, and strengthening local organization. It was emphasized that the elections require responsibility, transparency, and serious preparation from all structures. Page 3

In addition to our envelope, seemingly with five heads or with the PS preserves, the spokesperson for “democracy” also made a gross falsehood yesterday by inventing a staged lie about the PS and its secretary general. In fact, the speech of the vice-chairman of the PS was clearing up most of the problems in administration, while its opponent used it as a tool for slander. In the response of this political force it is emphasized that the spokesperson's reply is unfounded and attempts to shift attention away from the country's real issues. According to the PS, efforts to distort its positions will not affect the open battle with citizens or the election campaign. Page 3

On the 17th, Saturday, at 10:00 a.m., an active meeting will be held in the hall of the General Steering Committee of the Socialist Party. For your participation, all chairpersons of the commissions and the local government in the districts will take part. Municipality and Commune.