Reinforcements arrive for Meidani from America: Don’t be like Haxhi Lleshi Berisha investigates the Finance Minister: I have evidence against Malaj: He has made $160 million disappear. The Americans are demanding Alimuçaj’s old debts Top Secret documents burned Page 2 Reinforcements arrive for Meidani from America: Don’t be like Haxhi Lleshi Nano meets Meidani, Lino in the middle Berisha investigates the Finance Minister: I have evidence against Malaj: He has made $160 million disappear. The Americans are demanding Alimuçaj’s old debts Top Secret documents burned Page 2 DECREE

Nano, a slave to passion, fails with the politicization of the blanks and authoritarianism The Presidency is winning the game. Meidani is gradually freeing the country’s principal institution from political vassalage. The piecemeal decree of the new members of the government shows that the president’s imagination can work even more spectacular wonders. Prime Minister Nano, who has warned that he “will govern with a firm hand,” has thus suffered his first moral defeat. Nano has been touched at the very core of his character: authoritarianism. He tried to use populist methods to justify his retrospective utopia and “construction of tradition.” But in this sit- Continued on page 4

— Only we were decreed... We pulled it off!

“La Republica” The President of the Republic against the head of government. As if an economy on the brink of collapse, galloping inflation, widespread crime and a powder keg—Kosovo— ready to explode on its doorstep were not enough, Albania is making life extremely complicated by inventing an institutional crisis that nobody felt was needed. Read on page 4

Meidani: To be elected in June The Prime Minister’s revenge: They cut off the President’s phone The secret behind Vukaj’s departure: He left on the orders of Dritëro Agolli Pages 3–4 Telephone tapping, request from the Prosecutor’s Office 270 police surround two … murderers, Gypsy murderers Page 2 □ Three trucks stopped, police chief accused The Englishmen’s cannons at Korçë Bazaar Police officer robs the house he is inspecting Page 6 □ Mysterious suicide Smuggling is divided into parts Troubled hearts beneath the white coats Page 7 □ 20 thousand drug users in Tirana, only three case files at the Prosecutor’s Office Page 5