- They do not agree with the failure to examine the request of the PSD and PS on the illegality of the referendum - They also have objections to the chapter on the judiciary in the Draft Constitution Read page 3 for the statement addressed to President Berisha Three days before Sunday’s referendum, three members of the Constitutional Court, Xhavit Myrtaj, Naskën Shehi and Trifon Xhagjika, have resigned, upsetting the balance and constitutional order in Albania. They accuse the head of the Court of having blocked the request of the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party to stop the referendum. Regarding the referendum, they accuse the Court of having carried out a constitutional maneuver in favor of the President by failing to examine the request. According to the seven members, the President should have issued the constitutional act. Then the decision should have been taken with at least 9 votes. The three resigned judges did not accept the 8 to 7 vote in the Constitutional Court against rejecting the Draft Constitution. During yesterday’s session they also warned of the undermining of the principles of judicial independence in the Draft Constitution.

He had burned a beggar The tangled story of a beggar whom they had dragged to trial after robbing him. His file was returned to the hands of the investigators because of procedural violations. The terrible episode had taken place on the night of October 7, when the four young men stole a beggar from the streets of the capital. One was called “Houdini”, with the capital’s voice. In the following years he continued in the warehouse of an old factory near a cemetery. They crushed the beggar’s foot with hammers. One hit him with a pickaxe and another with iron bars. At the time he remained uncovered. The defendants thought he would die. Then, behind the post of the citizen they had stolen a few days earlier, they set him on fire alive. In fact, he had even accepted their terrible proposal to change his name, and at that moment they caught him alive and began firing at him. Fortunately, his death was prevented; they also saved the killed ones and took a bag with some equipment from his pockets. Later the four profited, and they were taken to Police Station No. 1. The incident caused an uproar and was sent to “Varri i Bamit”. The defendants were punished with 18 years each. A. Mustefa and one of them has not yet turned 18, has been returned without a lawyer. 2

Rally of the Democratic Alliance Party Ceka: “This referendum is a challenge to our political conscience” Tefa: “Stalin used to say: let the people vote for whoever they want, we count the votes” Rally of the Democratic Alliance Party “This referendum resembles Pinochet’s” Ceka: “This referendum is a challenge to our political conscience” Tefa: “Stalin used to say: let the people vote for whoever they want, we count the votes” (page 2)

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- Around 20 people are detained after the rally (page 2)

Rruga Labinoti opposite the children’s playground Tirana Telefak 42771