Albania and the governing model of “eat, take and leave”

Opinion of the Day By MENTOR KIKIA Flooding in the lowland areas of Fier and Vlora is no longer news. Likewise, the problem is no longer at the center of the government’s attention... Continued on page 20

The mayor we would like to have

Opinion of the Day By DRITAN HILA The start of the local-election campaign will bring us the portraits of those who will delight us over the next four years. Judging by what our eyes have seen in a quarter... Continued on page 21

META: I WILL NOT RESIGN

SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT: “DOSHI” WILL BE RESOLVED EITHER BY JUSTICE OR BY MEDICINE META: I WILL NOT RESIGN “Videos have become a popular sport” LSI leader: Tom Doshi told me that Berisha’s people wanted to carry out an assassination. Deputies’ past; Albania-US friendship group meeting canceled

Macedonian opposition leader: I have wiretaps of Albania’s ministers

Zoran Zaev’s “Bomb”: Files also on Kosovo’s government (In the photo:) Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev. Prime Minister Edi Rama entering parliament “The leaders of the Albanian parties in Macedonia, for personal gain, are under Gruevski’s control through blackmail” Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev declared yesterday that he possesses decoded wiretaps of ministers in the governments of Albania and Kosovo. The SDSM leader...

Speaker of Parliament Ilir Meta, appearing last night on journalist Blendi Fevziu’s “Opinion” program on TV Klan, reaffirmed his position that he had no connection whatsoever to the scenario which, according to him, MP Tom Doshi had devised to implicate him in a murder plot. Can you tell me how you became involved in the story about the planned murders of MPs Tom Doshi and Mhill Fufi? We are dealing with political statements made at a time when an MP is expelled from the Socialist Party, after having made other statements a few days earlier about stories involving female directors and ministers, and following a blackmail attempt that he has... On pages 4-5

Fatmir Xhafaj: Our diplomacy leaves much to be desired

DADE, BUSHATI: COME AND DEFEND THE LAWS On page 6

Bami-Doshi face-to-face confrontation ready; Dritan Prifti at the prosecutor’s office today

“ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT” On page 3

FNSH chief replaced; here are the 7 changes in the police force

THE NAMES LEAVING On page 9

Amnesty: whose electricity bills are being waived in Burrel

OSHEE AMNESTY On pages 14-15

Free mammography machines: schedule by city

SCREENINGS On page 10

‘Ndrangheta: BMW gift for politician from Albania

THE CALABRIAN MAFIA’S “PENITENT” SPEAKS “’Ndrangheta in Como, the initiation: ‘A cross on your back, then we drink the blood’” ‘Ndrangheta: BMW gift for politician from Albania On page 9

PUBLICATION / WHOM I CALL A TRICKSTER: LUSHAKU

SPECIALIST RINEA THE ELITE OF THE ALBANIAN POLICE FORMER HEAD OF RENEA: THE POLICE-PROSECUTOR “FEUD” IN 1991 OVER THE ARREST OF GAZ MUÇA On pages 16-17