“NEITHER TOPI NOR NANO”
THE PRIME MINISTER: I WILL NOT NOMINATE THE FORMER PS CHAIRMAN, WE WILL CHOOSE WITH OUR ALLIES
Berisha: The next President will come from the PD
PS chairman Edi Rama: Nano’s name is media fodder. Ilir Meta: We will consult with the PD. Ndoka: We will join Bamir Topi’s new party
INVA MULA: KOSOVO, THE LINK WITH HETEM MADE ME LOVE HIM EVEN MORE
INTERVIEW / THE FAMOUS SOPRANO
On page 26
Families of the victims: Lawsuit in Italy over the Otranto ship
“KATERI I RADES”
On page 17
The effects of the cult of personality on democracy
Opinion of the Day
By KIÇO BLUSHI
It is well known that all dictatorships, left or right, European or African, cannot survive without being fed and treated every day with the cult...
The effects of the cult of personality on democracy
Continues on page 23
Prime Minister Sali Berisha, in an interview given yesterday for the program “Opinion” by journalist Blendi Fevziu on Tv Klan, confirmed that Bamir Topi and Fatos Nano will not be proposed by the Democratic Party as candidates for the office of President of the Republic. Mr. Berisha, was your health condition on 12 December viral or emotional? They are episodes; this is the third one that has happened against the backdrop of a viral illness. It happened to me in 1998 and I got up quickly; I fell in a brutal way and after examinations it turned out to be a viral infection. It happened again in May 2002 at the Vlora rally. I had a strong flu before going, that day I had no fever and I set off. It was somewhat deeper. This time, I have been in a viral state for two weeks. I took antibiotics as a precaution, but the combination of that environment with the heat together with the virus created the same phenomenon, which was milder than the previous times. Afromsclerosis increases with age...
Continues on pages 4-5
Consensus: Totozani at the Supreme State Audit, Parliament votes for Leskaj
PD-PS PACT
On pages 3,6
Pier Mirel: The integration of Roma is a condition for the EU
MESSAGE FROM BRUSSELS
On page 13
The new national team coach: We will avoid finishing second
XHANI DE BIAZI
On page 24
“Corruption has taken away interest in the Song Festival on RTSH”
FREDERIK NDOCI
On page 20
Beqir Meta: There is no document that rehabilitates Esat Pashë
REVISITING HISTORY
On page 21
The man convicted of treason against the homeland, a monument of honor inside the Church
The Greeks’ “hero”, the bust is unveiled by Luiza Xhuvani
EXCLUSIVE
(In photo:) The monument of Filip Papathanas in the church of Rahull in Gjirokastër. Papathanas’s descendant, Luiza Xhuvani, unveiling the monument
The minority member Filip Papathanasi was sentenced for hostile activity in 1946, together with 18 other accused. He died at 31 in the prisons of the dictatorship
The Metropolis of Gjirokastër against placing the monument inside the churchyard. The SFEVA organization: Papathanasi was sentenced only because he defended the minority
On pages 8-9
