LAW/ MUNICIPAL COUNCILS WILL BE DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF RESIDENTS TERRITORIAL REFORM The heads of the mini-municipalities will be appointed The government changes the law on local government. The administration is unaffected until December 2017. The head of Tirana municipality will appoint local administrators By DARINA TANUSHI The new administrative-territorial reform has forced the government to make a change to the old 2000 law, “On the organization and functioning of local government.” In the draft law that will be discussed in Parliament in the coming days, the government proposes removing from the law all the words: “commune”, “commune chairman” and “commune council”. From now on, with the new reform, we will have the definitions “municipality”, “region” and the other subdivisions, such as administrative units made up of towns or villages. According to the definition of the amended law,... On page 3

Opinion of the Day By ASTRIT KOSTURI For more than twenty years, years burdened with empty and futile emotions, instead of transformative platforms in the service of the people... The 70th anniversary of Liberation, still in the tragic Hamlet-like dilemma Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day By MENTOR KIKIA At the opposition’s latest protest there were many people. Or more precisely, there were enough to scare a government that is only one year old... The protest against Rama and the pigs of Ulza Continues on page 21

The theft, the prosecutor’s office appoints 3 employees to count the money (In photo:) The building of the Treasury of the Bank of Albania. Former Governor Ardian Fullani. The Tirana Prosecutor’s Office For the first time, 900 metal pallets in the Treasury vaults will be opened. Among the group of experts is the relative of a PD deputy By KLODIANA LALA Suspicions that more than 713 million lekë have been stolen from the State Treasury forced the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office to order... On page 7

5 SPECIAL PAGES DURRES, THE SECOND LIST OF 2,500 OWNERS SINCE ’93, HERE IS WHO BENEFITED On pages 11-16

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Maternity leave: after 1 January women will be paid less On page 9

Complaint of violence, Didi suspends the chief of Police Station 2 On page 6

Teachers’ portal, today is the final deadline for applications On page 8

Blood feud, the prosecutor’s office: 50 years in prison for two brothers On page 10

History, here is how independence was declared in Tirana On page 17

100 thousand lekë for veterans decorated with the “Medal of Honor” GERMAN AMBASSADOR: FILES MUST BE OPENED 100 thousand lekë for veterans decorated with the “Medal of Honor” On pages 4-5