PARLIAMENT / LSI CRITICISMS, GOVERNMENT INCREASES FUNDS FOR BERAT META’S “PRESSURE”, THE BUDGET CHANGES Berisha: More was invested in Berat than ever before. PS: Public debt is out of control. LSI casts its vote, the 2012 budget gets 72 votes “for”, 60 “against” (In the photo:) Prime Minister Sali Berisha and LSI leader Ilir Meta in Parliament On pages 2-3

Opinion of the Day By XHEVAT MUSTAFA I will begin this analysis by quoting two statements, published on 12 and 13 December 2012. The first is from the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, ... Status, a matter of conditions or faith? Continued on page 18

Opinion of the Day By KIÇO BLUSHI As I was reading with curiosity what the prime minister had written to children and adolescents on Facebook about the snow of his childhood, I accidentally fell.... Some of the mother’s, some of the stepmother’s Continued on page 19

CENSUS / Reactions against the figures The Orthodox Church: We are 24 percent. Roma, protest in front of INSTAT Church Council: We distributed our questionnaires; 65% of believers were not asked at all By OLA MITRE The results of the Census on religious affiliation are strongly contested by the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania. In a press release, the church considers these data to be biased. According to it, “the entire methodology followed for recording religious affiliation.... On page 6

Dossier by Fatos Veliu / Conversation with Qemal Stafa’s fiancée in the war “He was famous for his bravery during the German operations” Vito Kapo recounts the bloody days, when in the winter of the German Operation of “44”, she ended up in the mountains of Kurvelesh. - Why Bedri Spahiu ordered the underground members of the group at Vito Kondi’s to leave the city immediately and go to the war front in the mountains of Labëria. What happened after her several-day march through the snowy mountains of the heights of Kuç, when the Germans had launched their most general offensive against the population of the area. - The unexpected event and the surprise they experienced after the conversation she had with Drita Kosturi,... On pages 14-15

INTERVIEW Justina Aliaj: Dritëroi allowed me to flee under communism On page 17

HANDCUFFS FOR THE SUSPECT IN THE ASSAULT, POLICE: HE WAS WITH NEHAT KULLA'S SON On page 8

“CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION” Llalla: Many prosecutors broke the law, they will be removed On page 6

ENERGY CEZ sale ready, ERE: Their bank accounts should be frozen On page 7

DISPUTE OVER PROPERTY After dinner with the neighbor, he doused him with gasoline and set him on fire On page 13

CRIME IN MAT Liman Barmeta: I entrusted my son to the father of the killers On page 12