CONSTITUTIONALISTS SAY THE APPOINTMENT AND DISMISSAL OF THE MINISTER ARE DONE BY DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT Spiro Peçi, adviser to the President: Xhaferraj has still not been dismissed. Lulzim Basha was dismissed on January 21. Omari: Basha, the opposition has the right to prejudge him. USA, Kantrimen: Incidents in the elections are worrying for the situation By DARINA TANUSHI Ferdinand Xhaferraj, the PD candidate for Mayor of Durrës, is still, legally, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports. Everything was revealed during a previous debate, when Prime Minister Berisha sent to the President of the Republic Bamir Topi, for decree, the request to dismiss Interior Minister Lulzim Basha, and the decree to appoint Bujar Nishani in his place. So, according to the Constitution, ministers are appointed and dismissed by decree of the President of the Republic. Which would... Continues on pages 2-3

COMMENT By ANASTAS JANULLATOS On page 17

Opinion of the Day Opinion of the Day By AFRIM KRASNIQI In early childhood we heard stories about the fairy and the magic wand, about the land of wonders and about Father Christmas and... Utopian Campaign Continues on page 21

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Reportage / The city of flowers has been left with nothing of its former splendor The “Enver” slogan in Përmet, two meters high, how it was built after 1991 In the photo: The entrance hill in Përmet, where after 1991 the slogan “Enver” was written (closed on the right) Bajram Deçka (bottom right) Shpëtim Shehati, former blacksmith of SMT The landowner of the slogan, Bajram Deçka: I have never been a communist, I became one in democracy. I get 16 kilos of paint to keep that slogan alive Shpëtim Shehati: I built the slogan because these young people told us they would give us a new suit, but they left us naked. I don’t need Enver, to be communist you must be a democrat, and I am one On pages 10-11

Easter / The former prime minister talks about the experience “We counted the eggs one by one. The first to visit us were the Muslims. The decision to close the places of worship was completely unexpected” Aleksandër Meksi: After 1967 we no longer took the lambs to the baker “We counted the eggs one by one. The first to visit us were the Muslims. The decision to close the places of worship was completely unexpected” By GILMANA BUSHATI Aleksandër Meksi расскаks how Easter was celebrated in Tirana before 1967, how believing families took their trays with lambs to “Mal Priska’s bakery,” as well as about visits between families. Meksi says that the first people to visit his family for Easter were the teachers of the “Qemal Stafa” high school, where his father worked, all of them Muslims. According to him, even in church, on Saturday evening Christians and Muslims gathered precisely at the... Continues on pages 16-17

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