Topalli attacks the PS-PD pact: The selected ones came out of the Rama-Basha table. The quips in Parliament, Rama to Berisha: When I’m no longer here, how will you do it? PARLIAMENT APPROVES THE FINAL LIST OF COMMISSIONERS WITH 100 "FOR" VOTES Topalli attacks the PS-PD pact: The selected ones came out of the Rama-Basha table. The quips in Parliament, Rama to Berisha: When I’m no longer here, how will you do it? (In the photo) Deputies during an extraordinary parliamentary session On page 5

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Opinion of the Day By PËRPARIM KABO A doctoral student in Kosovo has started a study on the transition in Albania with a focus on authoritarianism. For this purpose she contacted me online with some ... Questions from a female doctoral student from Kosovo... Continues on pages 21-22

Opinion of the Day By ALEXANDER KUDASCHEFF Helmut Kohl was the chancellor of German reunification and of the reunification of Europe. For 16 years he was the Federal Chancellor of Germany, a quarter of a century ... A great statesman - on the death of Helmut Kohl Continues on page 22

The prime minister invited the ‘blues’ to the PS campaign. Berisha: The crime boys belong to the party-state Vasili: No to the pressure of the Renaissance phalanges By VALENTINA MADANI Prime Minister Edi Rama stirred up politics and the institutions responsible for maintaining order in the country with his statement addressed to police officers that after working hours they should collect votes for the PS. “I call on ... On page 4

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Majko-Braçe: Don’t speak like Berisha. Kryemadhi: Haki Droga gathers criminals The Speaker of Parliament visits the village elder beaten by masked men with baseball bats By VALENTINA MADANI The elected President, Ilir Meta, from Lezha issued a strong warning yesterday, after meeting the LSI figure who had been beaten three nights earlier. Meta warned that he would arm the people if the police did not “tie up these dogs,” as he called them, referring to the perpetrators of the assault on Gjovalin Gjini, the village elder of Raboshtë in Lezha. “I will arm the people myself if the police don’t tie up the dogs. I’m telling you. I will arm the people myself,” Meta declared while ... On page 3

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