Between February 1989 and July 1990, he was a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. He then took over again on July 9, 1990 until February 22, 1991 as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior. Most recently, he stated that he opposed the command of the First Secretary of the PPSh (Ramiz Alia) who had ordered shooting at protesters in Tirana during the collapse of communism in February 1991. This claim was however rejected by Alia as untrue.