Spartak Poçi: PS without a political program Former Interior Minister: “Kurban” makes fun of murdered policemen Former PS Tirana leader: Changes to the statute weaken the structures. The leadership no longer represents the socialists. PS is losing its identity. Dissent is being suffocated By GILMANA BUSHATI Spartak Poçi, a member of the Socialist Party, former MP for Tirana for this party, and also former Interior Minister, in an interview given yesterday to “Gazeta Shqiptare” analyzes the political path of his own party and its latest Congress. He also responds to the accusation made against him by the PS leader, Edi Rama, who in the book “Kurban” states, among other things, that “the building of the former Ministry of Interior Club, another architectural gem covered in the dust of the mud of the years, on which Spartak Poçi, a Socialist minister who almost destroyed forty gangs, raised on the façade of the building from the Italian era, as if in the field of Kamez on the first days, without a project or even the minimum care in construction, a one-storey brick addition, without a permit to this day without plaster[?]”. Regarding this accusation, Poçi claims that he found that addition already completed, and he admits that it is ugly; but on the other hand he states that Rama, both as minister and as mayor for many years... Continued on pages 2-3

REPRINT/ Enver’s wife: The benefits of democracy (In the photo:) Nexhmije Hoxha, the communist former leader Enver Hoxha with his wife “With the arrival of pluralism, the idealists were sidelined, those who loved Albania as the whole of Europe, and people with dubious ties came to power” “Next year we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Independence, but we must not forget 45 years of socialism. In the economy we made mistakes, but we tripled the life expectancy of Albanians” On pages 10-11

THE FRANCISCANS AGAINST ARBEN PUTO[S?] THE FRANCISCANS AGAINST ARBEN PUTOS AT DEMAJ: THE HISTORY OF GJERGJ FISHTA IS NOT WRITTEN BY THE RED-HAIRED ONES On pages 16-17

PUBLISHED BY ALL NEWSPAPERS On page 6

Rebuttal of the Day By YLLI PANGO The journalist asked me whether I had received the book “Kurban”. No! I have not seen the book “Kurban” yet. Not even in person. I only read what was written ... Kurban-culture Continued on pages 4-5

Opinion of the Day By SHABAN MURATI At a time when the officials and politicians in Tirana are caught up in the debate over who is to blame for why Albania did not obtain candidate status ... The Europe of two speeds and Albania Continued on page 22

THE TOUGH GUY OF TROPOJA On page 8

STATE EXAM On pages 20-21

THE EVENT IN DURRES On page 13

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