World IN BRIEF : ALBANIA : Regime Reported Ready to Resign
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Albania’s Communist government plans to resign to make way for a multi-party caretaker government that will prepare new elections, according to opposition sources in Tirana, the capital. The sources said that Kastriot Islami, chairman of the Communist-dominated Parliament, said this had been agreed upon after a meeting of Albania’s main political parties. The current government was formed only in April after the Communists won the country’s first multi-party elections in nearly 50 years. But it has faced growing opposition demands.
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