As the debate rages in Albania as to whether former president Ilir Meta was or was not a collaborator of the State Security, another issue that is being widely commented on in the media, political corridors and by the citizens themselves is the relationship between the leader of the Freedom Party and the former prime minister Sali Berisha, who, it should be noted, is healthy, despite some cracks at different times.
Meta and Berisha have been together for 30 years, while the existence of this thing has been confirmed by the former head of the State Information Service, Fatos Klosi. The latter, during a statement for the "SOT" newspaper, has revealed for the first time that former president Meta and former prime minister Berisha have had contact since 1997. Klosi has revealed how, through the interception of a phone call, he increased their it was verified that Meta in 1997 was under the orders of Sali Berisha.
"In 1997, the Italian ambassador Foresti at that time had a phone call with Tritan Shehu, and in those phone calls it was discovered quite by chance that Ilir Meta was receiving orders from Sali Berisha. The discovery of that phone call was a great coincidence. They are those home phones that work wirelessly, and one phone with which the conversation was taking place was not working well, and so the conversation was also heard by other phones and the conversation was picked up quite by accident, but it was discovered that Berisha was giving orders to Ilir Meta". he declared.
The cooperation between them started after the Polican revolt
Furthermore, the former head of the State Information Service, Fatos Klosi, also spoke about the Meta Berisha alliance in 2013. Klosi was part of LSI at that time and gave many details. Klosi has cast doubts that Berisha has been in control of Meta since the Polican events. For all those who do not know, in 1992 Ilir Meta's arrest was attempted, after he was accused of being the organizer of the armed protest at the Military Plant in Poliçan.
"Ilir Meta is copying Sali Berisha. Meta was not like that, I had cooperation when he was prime minister and I liked it. Meta has changed a lot, today it takes such initiatives that shame me as a citizen. Meta is making initiatives that Berisha has made, now they are allies and they are old allies. I know about Meta from Poliçan's famous stories that he was under the influence of Berisha. I don't know if it was threatened or if it was a mutual support agreement. I mean the last day that LSI formed a coalition with Berisha. Dritan Prifti made a statement that he would join Berisha and we asked Meta to account and he told us that no we are not going with Berisha, but the next day we saw on television that Meta made a coalition with Berisha", he said.
Ndërkohëzoti Klosi ripërsëriti bindjen se bashkëpunimi mes Metës dhe Berishës është i hershëm. “Po është e vërtetë në fakt. Kjo është një deklaratë që është bërë nga të tjerë persona dhe unë e përsërita. Berisha dhe Meta kanë bashkëpunuar prej kohësh bashkë”, nënvizoi ish-kreu i SHISH, Fatos Klosi.
Ja si nisi greva e Poliçanit
Greva e Poliçanit filloi më datën 20 prill 1992, në atë periudhë Kryeministër ishte Aleksandër Meksi, ministër i Mbrojtjes Safet Zhulali (i ndjerë) dhe Drejtor i Kombinatit Mekanik Gëzim Cane. Situata agravoi më 24 gusht kur një ushtar qëlloi me armë zjarri dhe kjo soli revolta. 3.500 punëtorë pretendonin se ishin shkarkuar në mënyrë të padrejtë dhe pati konfrontim me administratë.
The person who was accused as the organizer was Meta, a member of parliament at the time. The People's Assembly, with decision no. 231, dated 17.9.1992, dismissed Maksim Haxhia from the office of the Prosecutor General, for marked weaknesses in his work, for lack of objectivity and procrastination in the investigation of some important criminal cases. On October 22, 1992, after several days of tense parliamentary debates, the immunity of MP Ilir Meta, accused of inciting the demonstrations in Poliçan, was removed.
In April 1993, the President of the Republic, Sali Berisha, visited Poliçan in an attempt to reduce tensions, among others, he declared: "Those who politicized the Poliçan strike were political bastards". The suspicions are that the Meta-Berisha cooperation started after this event.