The May 8 ballots
The draft decision to be approved tomorrow is revealed: Open the boxes
CEC: They will be burned. PS: The crime is being covered up
The draft decision to be approved tomorrow is revealed: Open the boxes
The May 8 ballots
CEC: They will be burned. PS: The crime is being covered up
CEC chairman Arben Ristani: I carried out the best elections in history. PS legal expert Eridian Salianji: You are Berisha’s soldier, you are destroying the evidence of manipulation
The Central Election Commission will examine on Monday the draft decision “On opening the ballot boxes and the electoral materials boxes used for the elections for the local government bodies of 08 May 2011.” The decision on paper provides for the destruction of the ballot papers. According to the draft, which may also be approved with the four votes of the majority, the CEC will make available around 1.8 million lek for this process, which is expected to last 60 days. The fund will be allocated to fuel and the salaries of the workers who will empty the boxes. But meanwhile, unlike the ballot papers from June 28, 2009, which kept Albanian politics hostage for about two years, this time the ballot papers will be burned very quickly. According to the Socialist Party, all this hurry has a reason. “Ristani, before leaving the CEC, is erasing the trace of electoral crime. This is an attempt to hide the manipulation of the May 8 elections,” the socialist jurist near the CEC, Eridian Salianji, said in an interview yesterday for “Gazeta Shqiptare”...
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An inevitable pact with the Devil
Opinion of the Day
By ERJON TASE
There are two ways to harvest fruit from a tall tree. The first is to wait beneath the tree for them to ripen and fall; the second is to shake it...
An inevitable pact with the Devil
Continues on page 15
Sadije Berisha: How I won Shkëlzen’s heart in Sweden
Publication / The account of the prime minister’s son’s wife
(In the photo:) Shkëlzen Berisha with his wife, Sadije. (Right) Sadije Berisha photo used on the book cover
“Even after 7 years he is still in love... with dessert. Recipes and memories? My mother was a heroine, she cooked for 7 children”
The publication “Sweet Desires,” a cookbook devoted to desserts. Sadije: What is my husband’s favorite cake
On pages 12-13
Professor Musa Kraja: Encyclopedias, education takes up space like a cucumber
“The dictionary, filled with errors”
Professor Musa Kraja:
Encyclopedias, education
Takes up space like a cucumber
On pages 6-7
The Palestinian request
Yesterday in “New York Times”
By ROBERT M. DANIN
Last year, the speech by American President Barack Obama was full of promises and commitments to advancing Palestinian statehood...
The Palestinian request
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3.4 kg of heroin seized, Turkish man and 2 Albanians arrested
It came from Macedonia, destination: Greece
On page 8
Ben Blushi, a five-pointed star on the cover of “Shqipëria”
“Milosao”
Ben Blushi,
a five-pointed star
on the cover
of “Shqipëria”
On pages 17-28
“Marubi”, today the human rights festival begins
Cinematography
“Marubi”, today
the human rights
festival begins
On page 14
The Greeks, a list with the names of Cham people declared “non grata” at the border
The doctor is forced out
The Greeks, a list
with the names of
Cham people “non
grata” at the border
On page 10
Alliance of the Red and Black: Tear up the registration form
Berat
Alliance
of the Red and Black: Tear up
the registration form
On page 4
UN, Berisha: Palestine, not unilateral decisions
The prime minister speaks
UN, Berisha:
Palestine,
not unilateral decisions
On page 5
