LOCAL ELECTIONS/ META MEETS RAMA: CANDIDATE NAMES ON 1 APRIL Negotiations, Ruçi vetoes Fier The Prime Minister receives the Speaker in the Pink House headquarters: “A woman for Tirana Municipality? Why not?!” The candidates for the municipal councils, 50% women.” Within the week, meeting with Gjinushi and Milo. By DARINA TANUSHI The Socialist Movement for Integration will have the right to propose candidates in 15 municipalities out of 61 across the country. After successive negotiations between Prime Minister Edi Rama and Speaker of Parliament Ilir Meta, Sunday 15 March was chosen to formalize this agreement, which will grant the allied party veto power so that, if it does not like the other party’s candidates, it can reject them and request a new name. So far, Rama and Meta have negotiated together in several consecutive meetings held at the Parliament Presidency, almost every Wednesday, while yesterday they were also joined by the two respective heads of the parliamentary groups, that of the PS, Gramoz Ruçi, and that of the LSI, Petrit Vasili, as well as MP Taulant Balla. At the end of the meeting at the PS headquarters, which lasted about 90 minutes, Prime Minister Rama confirmed the decision that the two... On pages 2-3

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