The majority is shaken by just 70 votes in Parliament
The report on the socialist MP will be sent to the Constitutional Court
Chaos in the vote to strip Ilir Beqaj of his mandate. PS MP Toçi cannot vote. From LSI, Koka abstains. Idrizi, Prifti and Stërkaj vote against. Berisha: Win government tenders too, but without a mandate
By TEDI BLUSHI
With 70 votes in favour, 67 against and 2 abstentions, Parliament decided yesterday to send for interpretation to the Constitutional Court the issue of the mandate of Socialist MP Ilir Beqaj. According to the report of the Committee on Rules, Mandates and Immunities, which was submitted to Parliament for a vote by Democratic MP Viktor Gumi, it is explained that “PS MP Ilir Beqaj, a 51% shareholder in the company Intech Plus, benefited from public funds through participation in a tender announced by the Municipality of Durrës, during the period...
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Arkan’s wife, Ceca: How we entered Albania with false passports in ’96
Exclusive / For the first time, the arrival of the Serbian criminal in the country is acknowledged
(In the photo:) The well-known Serbian singer Ceca with Arkan
Ceca: I was in Ohrid with Arkan and, in the company of businessman Petrit Hamo, we came to Tushemisht. We ate your traditional dish, the rare Koran fish casserole
“We left our luxury car in Macedonia and the two of us, with false documents, crossed the border in an ordinary Hyundai jeep. They told us to sit at the table where Enver Hoxha used to eat...”
On pages 22-23
Linda Basha: Tomorrow we’ll live in rented accommodation under the surname Rama
Today Tanja Fajon gets the ‘key’ and congratulates Rama
Edi Rama and Linda Basha
Photo: Armando Babani
Linda Basha: Tomorrow we’ll live in rented accommodation under the surname Rama
On pages 6-7
Yesterday in “Financial Times”
This week’s security summit between Nikolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev was like a non-event. France wanted something spectacular,...
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New rules for a multipolar Europe
By IVAN KRASTEV,
MARK LEONARD
New rules for a multipolar Europe
Opinion of the Day
By KIÇO BLUSHI
With this formula, which we hear every day from the opposition leaders, the protests, the boycott, as well as the refusal... are justified.
“The laws are good, but... they are not enforced!”
Continues on page 29
Elections, Meta and Mediu are absent from Berisha’s roundtable
KSHH: We are not going either
On pages 4-5
Construction students protest for the Master’s programme
With fewer quotas
On page 13
Enver Hoxha’s Pyramid will become Parliament
71 MPs will vote
On page 8
17-year-old: He took me as a wife, but treated me like a prostitute
Korçë / The harrowing testimony of the girl Fjorola K.
Police arrest 35-year-old Jani Bici. Girl: He kidnapped me and took me to Durrës
Police arrest 35-year-old Jani Bici.
Girl: He kidnapped me and took me to Durrës
On page 21
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