Confident in establishing the authority of the law. Prime Minister Nano returns from the West No sensitivity for Berisha and his little ones armed with conflicts The French Foreign Minister praises the arrival of Prime Minister Nano

The Comedians In vain, right-wing propaganda on radio and television and in some left-leaning newspapers had set all their machinery in motion to shift public opinion’s attention away from the issue of the blocking of the parliamentary rostrum together with the opposition deputies. In fact, things happened quite differently. The truth was stated by the chairman of the Socialist parliamentary group, Namik Dokle, in the plenary session, and the media transmitted it in the same distorted and tendentious way, as they had been ordered to do. I asked for the truth about what had happened with the rostrum. I asked how the session had ended 3 hours and 15 minutes earlier, and at that moment some opposition deputies had not seen what was happening, so they began hurling insults and curses at the left-wing deputies. What I was questioning was not whether the rostrum had been taken over by the opposition, but the way they had used and abused it, blocking parliament. That is the essence. That is the issue. As for the infamous vulgar phrase “rape of parliament,” the wording was more precisely this: “It was an attempt at the political rape of parliament.” To understand it, you must know that political rape is when someone forcibly prevents the normal work of an institution. And that is exactly what the opposition deputies did: instead of debate they chose quarrelling, instead of argument they chose obstruction, instead of an alternative they chose farce. I also pointed out that since the opposition deputies had blocked parliament for three days in a row, with shouting, insults and banal acts, they could not expect this institution to continue normally as if nothing had happened. That is all. The attempt to turn this episode into a political melodrama, with the right presented as victims and the socialists as aggressors, is part of a script the public already knows well. An old script, with overused actors, poor direction and a dull text. In this comedy, unfortunately, some media have taken on the role of prompter. I am not dealing with details such as the falsifications made around words, interventions and gestures. Those are commonplace for an opposition that has lost its sense of proportion. But I do say that all the noise created cannot hide the truth: that it was the opposition that obstructed the work of the Assembly, that insulted, that provoked, that sought confrontation. And that the reaction of the majority was a reaction to the chaos created, not its cause. In the end, the public will judge for itself. And the public knows who is behaving like a serious political force and who is behaving like a troupe of comedians climbing onto the parliamentary stage to make noise, not politics.

A “Halali”-type strike, politicians’ opinions And so the people almost burst out laughing Page 2

A great cultural discovery for Albanians in the Russian chronicles page 9

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Conference by the World Bank representative Elbirt[?] Brussels, only new projects page 5

20 years of flights to Sydney[?] page 12