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EDITORIAL A life on the campaign trail Someone has cursed us to remain on the campaign trail our entire lives. Even when the political epithet that today commonly accompanies this word had scarcely existed ten or more years ago, the word “campaign” sent shivers of fear and terror through the bodies of Albanians. It was associated with leaving home for the agricultural fields and for the mountains, which awaited the pickaxe so they could “be made like the fields”; it was also associated with the intensification of the war [text cut off] is so pleasant for Albanians. Although for a long time, in a bizarre period marked by pluralism, it has rarely happened that the word “electoral” does not follow it, Albanians have begun to understand that those who have taken it upon themselves to be called the people in power in their country do not know how to act otherwise… only as if they were on the campaign trail. [text cut off] want to live and deserve to do so, but only as voters and a desirable voting pool; this is what all those do who, even after rising to head an institution thanks to the tricks of voting and the rules of pluralism (such as, for example, the Municipality of Tirana and its mayor, Edi Rama), continue to speak off] campaign stirred up in the bodies of Albanians a sense of fear and terror [the original wording is unclear: “përgjilëm[a?]”]. and for the mountains waiting for the pickaxe to the intensification of the class struggle, the terrifying waves of internments, imprisonments, expulsions and transfers of a clearly political nature. There are many who say that terrors of this kind have died once and for all in Albania. And this is true. Just as it is true that once again the word “campaign” does not happened without the word “electoral” following power in their country do not know how to behave otherwise... only as if they were campaigning. That is what the prime minister does when he prefers to speak before “voters,” not about their many troubles (most of which he himself has created with the Government he heads), but about “the evils of the political opponent”; that is what every party leader does when they do not see their fellow citizens [sic] as people who, even after climbing to the head of an institution thanks to the tricks of the vote and the rules of pluralism (as, for example, the Mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama), continue to speak as if they were campaigning. Someone has cursed us terribly. So terribly that we are now condemned to have not power and people in power, but ordinary campaigners, political hooligans who know how to do no other work than curse, insult and anathematize with the “carefully selected” vocabulary of campaigns.

The heartbreaking story of Petrit Shakaj “I want to see Adriana once, and then let me die” His wife and daughter abandoned him They married in Greece The heartbreaking story of Petrit Shakaj THE ABANDONED MAN “I want to see Adriana once, and then let me die” His wife and daughter abandoned him They married in Greece Pages 12, 13 Young Petrit with his daughter Adriana on his lap

Tirana’s mayor, “more Catholic than the Pope” The Prime Minister silences the new mayor of Tirana at the moment when the latter has restarted his anti-opposition game from the days before October 1. During a meeting with local elected officials, Meta forced Rama to fall silent; Rama is still living in the delirium of the October 1 local election campaign. At the meeting held yesterday at the Palace of Congresses between government leaders and all the mayors and commune heads, Meta responded to Rama because the mayor’s remarks contradicted Meta’s own words, in which he offered cooperation between the two levels of government, central and local. Rama has begun insulting the administration he found at the municipality. Page 2

How she came to Albania and how the Moldovan woman was sold The Moldovan teenager Valentina Mititerus could never have imagined that one autumn day like any other she would find herself facing Albanian justice, accused of prostitution. According to her statements to the Prosecution, she left her homeland a year earlier with another group of girls in order to engage in prostitution.

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Page 11 Announcement Today at 10:30, at the PRSH Central Headquarters, the Executive Board will hold a press conference.