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Editorial: Making Fools of Themselves: Experimenting in Fake Oppositions

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL   In the beginning of the 90s, the crumbling communist regime foreseeing its fate made a last ridiculous attempt to salvage its wrecks by prompting the first fake opposition in Albania. They put the Women’s and Youth organizations together with the so called Professional Unions, all appendixes of the communist Labor Party, in the parliament and tried to charade them as pluralism. This had been so far a unique case of fake opposition experimenting in Albania, perhaps now forgotten and in retrospective painfully ridiculous but at the time aggravating and foretelling. The most current attempt is made…

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