OUT OF 33 COMPETITORS, ALMA PËRMETI IS THE ONLY FEMALE WINNER RANKS, THE 13 POLICEMEN WHO BECOME ‘GENERALS’ The titles go to former Tirana Police director Sajmir Muça and the two deputy directors. The chiefs of Durrës and Vlora are also rated for promotion (In the photo:) Former Tirana Police director Sajmir Muça during an inspection of the blue-uniformed officers On page 8

Opinion of the Day By ALFRED CAKO I don’t know how to vote, among the breed of internal “tourist Steves” who hardly ever betray the homeland, even a little, because of financial opportunities, ... Continues on page 21 Ah, Vlora! So why do you vote for them, you fool?!

Reaction/ “He has an association, here is the decision” Janullatos: Nikolla Marku, thief, that’s why we didn’t make him a priest “We expelled him in 1992 from the clergy course, he forged the documents” In the written response we gave to “Gazeta Shqiptare” on 11.8.2012, regarding a defamatory text written by Nikolla Marku from Elbasan, we showed that the person in question is carrying out a continuous fraud. Since he continues to claim that he is a “priest” of a nonexistent Church and makes religion look ridiculous, we are forced to reiterate that no Orthodox Church anywhere in the world recognizes him as a priest and ... On page 11

INTERVIEW/ The boy from the “Courtyard”: My love for horses comes from my father, I was a champion at 12 The owner of the resort in Tirana was arrested with 62 kg of drugs in Greece At the age of 9 I would leave home to play with my friends and there were the carts that collected the garbage. The cart driver stops the horse and goes to take the garbage bins, but it was a narrow lane that the horse could not enter because the cart could not turn around. I took advantage of the moment, climbed onto the horse together with the cart and started driving it on the brake. The horses were used to always taking the same route and the horse took me on its own to the riverbank. The cart driver runs after me, finds me at the riverbank and starts hitting me with slaps. But then, apparently he felt sorry for me and on the way back he left me on the horse again. At the entrance to the lane, my father came from work and sees me on the horse. At the age of 9 I could not know our parents’ stories, because they were stories that could not be told. Such was... On page 6

Winners apply for jobs On pages 21–26

FATHER: I AM AFRAID FOR HER On page 7

CHANGES On page 4

APPLICATION IN 2013 On page 5

ARNAUDOV’S LIFE Supplement

“STERILE DEBATE” Stavri Dajo: Language is not a communist product On page 10