CEC: 11 boxes remain, Basha 39 votes ahead of Rama. NGOs: CEC decision-making is illegal Police beat protesters, Rama in hospital at midnight Tension throughout Albania, Basha gains votes with the CEC boxes, Rama blocks roads and burns tires. Barroso: I won’t come in this situation. Topi: Regret over the standards By KLODIANA LALA Rama or Basha!? Which of them will be the new mayor of the capital? The debate has moved to every work table or café, to every evening dinner among friends or family members, to every setting, whether official or not. The fierce battle taking place in the Central Election Commission will not be the last. The clash and tension seem set to continue for a long time. From the work table.... On pages 2-7 (In photo:) From yesterday’s PS protests in the blocking of national roads by placing burning tires

Opinion of the Day By KIÇO BLUSHI According to Brussels, Mr. Barroso has canceled his visit to Tirana in order to deliver a deserved punishment to the local political class... Continues on page 29 Welcome(not) dear Mr. Barroso!

Former Defense Minister Kiço Mustaqi speaks about the two systems in Albania, before and after ‘90 “The time of democracy, I did not carry out the order to shoot people” Kiço Mustaqi, former Defense Minister and former Chief of the General Staff of the Albanian Army, in his interview explains how he did not obey two orders from Ramiz Alia, then chairman of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour. The order he did not carry out was the gathering in Tirana of all reservists from across Albania in order to deal with the situation created by the unrest of 1990 and 1991. The second order that Kiço Mustaqi did not carry out for Ramiz was to shoot at the people gathered in Skanderbeg Square while the monument of Enver Hoxha was being toppled. By GILMANA BUSHATI On pages 22-23

Winner of the books, a ministry employee On pages 14-15

STATE OBLIGATIONS Year 2011, we received 1.7 million euros a day On pages 12-13

Yesterday in “New York Times” By HANS LUCHT E bo[u?] got nervous when, in the middle of a night in 2003, he was taken to the beach in Zuara[h?] by Libyan smugglers and saw the change he was supposed to make. ... Continues on page 28 Deadly seas

SECURITY MEASURE Paro Laçi’s statement: I will speak and take justice into my own hands On page 10

FULL LIST Shkodër, PS councillors fewer members than ‘07 On page 20

They called us criminals CEC policeman: How I managed to keep the pistol in my belt On page 2