Interview/ ERMONELA FELAJ: IT WAS A PROPOSAL BY PD IN THE ASSEMBLY Minister for Relations with Parliament: Decriminalization does not clash with the Constitution. Byllykbashi’s reply: We did not propose it THE GOVERNMENT: WHY THE CONVICTS WILL NOT VOTE Minister for Relations with Parliament: Decriminalization does not clash with the Constitution. Byllykbashi’s reply: We did not propose it (In photo:) Prime Minister Edi Rama and the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Ermonela Felaj On page 3

Tragedy in Korçë Marsela Toshi and her mother, Mimoza Gremi THE MOTHER OF THE 2 DROWNED CHILDREN: I DIDN’T KILL THEM, NAUMI TOLD ME “OPEN YOUR LEGS SO THAT WE CAN EAT BREAD” On page 12

Opinion of the Day By MIRA BREGU At the end of the visit to Albania, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances published today at the Palace of Nations, ... Continues on pages 20-21 Missing, UN experts in Albania

Opinion of the Day By MENTOR KIKIA The territorial reform, or the new administrative division, put an end to a large number of local units that elected a municipal mayor with even 300 votes ... Continues on page 21 The reform that left half the country without local government

Interview/ “Worrying statistic” The figures in the OSCE survey, the writer says: We are a society that accepts authoritarianism 53% ‘pro-Enver’, Bashkim Shehu: Those who were asked are over 55 years old The figures in the OSCE survey, the writer says: We are a society that accepts authoritarianism By FATMIRA NIKOLLI They fed the limbs and the entrails and others were hurled into abysses, into large pits of eternal snow, as if they had been flung from the sky and disinterred and torn apart by the beaks of carnivorous birds and in other communal pits of On page 19

VIP: The couple is in divorce proceedings, police receive the call about domestic violence The singer asks for a protection order, and the wife also receives protection in court By ENIDA HIMAJ As with the rest of society, people in art and culture are not immune to domestic violence either. “Vip Pages” of “Gazeta Shqiptare” brings today a story of violence within the home of two artists; Sajmir Çili, a well-known singer-songwriter, and Suela Kalase, a singer. It seems that this well-known duo has turned to the competent authorities with mutual complaints for abuse. For some time Sajmir and Suela had been in the divorce phase, and their relationship often had ups and downs. Sources from the police say that after a phone call they went to the artists’ home, where they found them in the middle of a Supplement

Reforms EU: Negotiations depend on progress. Rama: We need “justice” On page 5

“Open Studio” “Concessions”/ Beqaj: How they are changing healthcare On page 8

ATP list Property compensation, the names of those who shared 1.5 billion lek On pages 10-11

The diplomat Shaban Murati promotes the new book “Faustian Balkans” On page 22