 During negotiations with the Italian government, he secured Italian recognition for Albanian independence and a promise that the Italian occupation of Vlora would be temporary.It is this turbulent period of Albanian history that Mufid Bey Libohova describes in his memoirs, "Politika ime ndë Shqiperi, 1916-1920" ("My Policies in Albania, 1916–1920").Libohova would be an opponent of the Congress of Lushnje event of 1920, as part of the old-case government of Durrës together with Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, Fejzi Alizoti, and Sami Vrioni.