IN POGRADEC, THE RESIDENTS OF A COMMUNE ARE ASKING ONLY FOR THE CITY CEMETERY. HERE ARE THE CANDIDATES’ PROMISES THE ELECTIONS’ ODDITY ONE VOTE FOR ONE GRAVE PD candidate: For space reasons, I have taken offices near the PD headquarters, but I have not broken away from the party. Campaign costs are all transparent By BARDHYL BERBERI A vote in exchange for a grave for the resting place of bones. This is a promise as strange as it is ridiculous, yet very meaningful for the “nomadic” residents of the village of Çervenakë in the district of Pogradec. In these “hot” days of the election campaign, when the madness of representatives of different political forces is endless, it reaches its peak with the latest “discovery”. The most absurd and unheard-of promise ever made by the candidates On pages 2-3 (In photo:) The village of Çervenakë where people will vote in exchange for the cemetery (Right) From the previous parliamentary elections

FORUM/ Heritage issues from the perspective of experts in the country Namasgjaja, the graves of Shkodër, the Korça Bazaar and schooling, the main issues In the spring of 1995, with my wife and two old friends I had made a visit to the famous cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris. To tell the truth, the impulse for that visit to the cemetery was an old unfulfilled wish from my early youth: Jim Mor- By ARTAN LAME, VASIL TOLE, ARTAN SHKRELI, MAKS VELO, LORENC BEJKO rison. I knew he had been buried there since he died in 1971, and this home of his in that soil, far from America, had been an exception made only for the psychedelic blues-rock star, since the cemetery had at the time been declared closed. We found the place easily; it was enough to follow the stream of Morri- son’s admirers.... On pages 24-25

Investigation into the assets of 188 officials and politicians, list of MPs and prosecutors On page 8

Yesterday in the “New York Times” By SALMAN RUSHDIE The great “Turbine Hall” at Tate Modern in London, a former power station, is another difficult space for an artist to fill with authority.... Dangerous Arts Continues on page 28

Opinion of the Day By DRITAN HILA Humanity, along its path, has damaged and destroyed masterpieces of the human mind: Timur the Lame destroyed whatever he found ahead, the Arabs.... The Villages and Sali’s Project Continues on page 29

AGAINST MANIPULATION On page 4

FORMER HEAD OF THE COURT OF CASSATION Zef Brozi: The internationals are not stopping the manipulations On pages 20-21

DEFICIT 11.2 BILLION LEK On page 13

ZEZIN CELA SPEAKS On pages 22-23

BEFORE THE ELECTIONS 8 May, Nishani returns to the police On page 7