THE STATE’S ACCUSATION Rakipi: We have evidence Koseni is guilty “For this criminal offense, there is sufficient evidence to establish Koseni’s responsibility, and we demand that the guilty be punished” On page 2

Minister on an official visit Furious with his colleagues, whom he had tasked with preparing the material and ensuring that it was on the table for the multilateral meeting, he phones the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Order in Tirana in an agitated state, ordering them to fax…

paradox Edmond TUPJA Every day, more and more, the word “choice” is bandied about in newspapers, on radio and television stations, because the noose of the local elections is tightening ever more around the necks of the political parties. The verb “to choose” is also being conjugated, mainly in the simple future, which poses a political problem with a complicated future or, in the simplest case, no future at all. The “electoral” process is now increasingly being called the “election” process; at first glance, this disregard for the word “electoral” seems strange at a time when the Albanian language... Continued on page 21

Arben Rakipi, Prosecutor General of the Republic