ADRIATIK LLALLA GETS 75 VOTES IN PARLIAMENT. U.S.: AGGRESSIVE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION Speaker of Parliament’s press office: The non-vote was deliberate and a personal choice. Islami, Oketa and Dule vote ‘for’. Doshi and Prifti absent Speaker of Parliament’s press office: The non-vote was deliberate and a personal choice. Islami, Oketa and Dule vote ‘for’. Doshi and Prifti absent With 75 votes in favor and 54 abstentions, Parliament approved yesterday the President of the Republic’s decree appointing Adriatik Llalla to the post of Prosecutor General. The Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, did not take part in the vote. Parliament’s press office clarified yesterday officially for the media that “Ms. Topalli’s non-vote is fully deliberate and a personal choice of hers.” The new chief prosecutor also received a vote in favor from FRD MP Gazmend Oketa, the head of PBDNJ, Vangjel Dule, and MP Kastriot Islami, expelled from the parliamentary group of the PS, all of whom had previously publicly declared their support for Adriatik Llalla. The opposition, as it had announced, chose to abstain en bloc. Meanwhile, PS MP Tom Doshi and independent MP Dritan Prifti, although they had declared a vote in favor of Llalla, were not present in Parliament at the time of voting..... Continues on pages 2-3

BLUE TOOTH Françeska: I’m still single, but happy for Ermal Former girlfriend: I’m turning Redon’s betrayals into a book. Soni Malaj: Berisha’s phone call (In the photo:) The former girlfriend of singer-songwriter Redon Makashi, Elda Koçi. Singer Soni Malaj. Françeska Jaçe. Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ferdinand Poni Frederik Ndoci: I only gave him the theme of the song, Lek Plepi made me a producer Gent Strazimiri, obsessed with motorcycles. Ferdinand Poni’s car gets a puncture Keli has a fight with Florianë before the festival. Anxhela Martini, in bed with a man Supplement

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INTERVIEW Edi Rama: I’ll win in 2013, ready to debate with Berisha, anywhere On page 7

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THE DECISION KLD dismisses Neritan Tabaku, names of the new electoral college On page 9

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