Request for forced escort to the committee, the former prime minister says: I was in the office, not at home. The CEZ investigation, 4 hours of debate with Balla LETTER/ THE CHIEF OF POLICE STATION NO. 1: WE DIDN’T FIND HIM, THE DOOR WASN’T OPENED (In the photo) Former Prime Minister Berisha, yesterday in committee. The letter from the chief of police station no. 1, Elton Alushi On page 6

Opinion of the Day By ARBEN KARAPICI The Foreign Ministers of NATO member countries faced a packed agenda as they met in Brussels on the occasion of the year-end... Continues on page 21 Atlantic defence, in the day

Opinion of the Day By BLENDI FEVZIU For better or for worse? That is the first question that comes to mind when looking at the election result in Macedonia and the mandates... Continues on page 20 Macedonia, for “good” or for “bad”?

INTERVIEW Director General of Civil Status, Bledar Doracaj They have no right because of “decriminalization” The decision, thousands of prisoners will not vote in the 2017 elections Clash with constitutional rights, the Head of Civil Status, Doracaj: We are applying the law By DARINA TANUSHI Thousands of convicts are expected to be disenfranchised in the elections of 18 June 2017. “Gazeta Shqiptare” reveals today that, because of the provisions of the decriminalization law, approved some time ago by parliament, ... On pages 2-3

Kristaq Pleqi: When did you also become a historian. Kastriot Dervishi: Devoted persecutor MESSAGES/ The former Archives director at the Ministry of the Interior: Those who were persecuted and lived in Lushnje know them well! The former director of the Archives at the Ministry of the Interior, historian Kastriot Dervishi, yesterday published his “reply” to one of the former employees of the State Security. Dervishi says that in his email he found a message from Kristaq Pleqi, former devoted operative of the notorious State Security. “But when did you also enter the ranks of historians, no one is left without becoming one,” Pleqi writes to him. Dervishi on Facebook. “But the historian’s response did not take long. ‘Thank God, I was neither a State Security operative nor recruited by them. Nor a party member. There is no greater pleasure than not being part of scum that, besides being parasites and persecutors, knew no other work to do,’ Dervishi replied to Pleqi. Dervishi has published the photos of the messages... On page 17

COMPETITION/APPLICATION DEADLINE: 16 DECEMBER Teachers for Albania MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SPORTS Employment with education, the list of 347 winners in the first phase in Tirana County On page 7

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