Albania Socialists Predict Victory

Socialist leaders told several thousand supporters Thursday that popular discontent with corruption and abuse of power among President Sali Berisha’s Democrats will power them to victory in parliamentary elections.

Elections Sunday will determine whether the Democrats, who took power in 1992 as Albania ended decades of harsh Communist rule, can hang on to it.

Albania still is among the poorest countries in Europe, but the economy has grown steadily in recent years.