Ermelinda Meksi, in a ‘row’ with Edi Rama The MP argues with the PS leader: There is no guarantee that I will be elected to the BoA The PS chairman asks her in his office to run for the Supervisory Council of the Bank of Albania. Meksi’s reply: It is your fault PS MP Ermelinda Meksi refuses to hand over her parliamentary mandate in order to run for membership of the Supervisory Council of the Bank of Albania. Official sources from the PS said yesterday to “Gazeta Shqiptare” that over these days there has been a discussion on this issue between PS chairman Edi Rama, MP Meksi and several other MPs from the PS and the parliamentary group. According to the same sources, yesterday too there were several meetings in Chairman Rama’s office with Meksi, the deputy chair of the parliamentary economy commission Mimi Kodheli, with whom he discussed the matter. After consulting legally, Rama asked Meksi to give up her parliamentary mandate in order to run for the supervisory council, since according to the Constitution, a parliamentary mandate is incompatible with other public functions. However, the MP and former integration minister, although she has expressed her willingness to run for this post... Continues on pages 2-3

ARCHITECT: 1,000 PRAYER PLACES NAMAZGAJSA MOSQUE, THE 1993 PROJECT WITH TWO MINARETS IS REVEALED On page 11

Opinion of the Day By LATIF HAJRULLAI For some time now, people have been talking, discussing, groups are being formed, political statements are being made toward drafting a Primer, which would complete..... The common primer and problems for Albanians Continues on page 22

Opinion of the Day By AFRIM KRASNIQI In the spring of 1912, when the last parliamentary elections in the Ottoman Empire were being held, in Albania the vote became the most sought-after commodity on the market ... Business with the sovereign Continues on page 23

“Away from politics for health reasons” “AWAY FROM POLITICS FOR HEALTH REASONS” Ylli Vejsiu: Why he did not go to Bamir Topi’s party On page 5

RAMA ATTACKS THE MEDIA Erjon Braçe: The truth about the debates in the PS Assembly On page 3

INTERVIEW/ “Fishta was wrong, Koliqi a servant of fascism” Arben Puto: Enver’s debate with the Greeks over ‘Vorio-Epir’ in ’46 (In the photo:) The well-known historian Arben Puto. Enver Hoxha, the Greek prime minister Metaxas The well-known historian publishes documents: Gjergj Fishta should not have written a eulogy for Victor Emmanuel, a dwarfish king not only in stature “Mustafa Kruja was not only a fascist prime minister, but an ideologue of fascism. He calls Benito Mussolini a providential man and interpreter of history” On pages 20-21

VLORË 72 kg of hashish seized at the port, man and woman arrested On page 16

THE FSHF DECISION Dash Sula and Shpëtim Gjika, penalized with 8 weeks’ suspension On page 24

REPLY TO THE HEAD OF THE KUVENDI TË KOSOVËS REPLY TO THE HEAD OF THE KUVENDI TË KOSOVËS Murat Basha: Ahmet Zogu did not kill the intellectuals On page 15