We will return many times stronger on March 22

Berisha: The coming spring, the winter of the bandits On Sunday, 50,000 Democrats in “Skënderbej” Square on page 4

USA: Corridor 8, in Albania

Yesterday’s Berisha-Limpreht meeting. The US ambassador gives assurances to Albanians

Socialists, three years against March 22

on page 5

Gert Ahrens: Equal conditions for elections

Following OSCE intervention, the crisis in talks on the electoral law is resolved on page 4

Berisha congratulates Aznar

Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I would like to send you my warmest congratulations on the victory of the Popular Party under your leadership in the parliamentary elections of March 12. Spanish voters expressed their gratitude to you and your party for their achievements during your government over the past four years, and renewed their confidence in the values of liberal democracy that you and the Popular Party are successfully consolidating in Spain. The victory of Spain’s Popular Party is a good omen for the Democratic Party of Albania and for all center-right forces throughout Europe. I take this opportunity to reiterate my strong desire and conviction that cooperation and friendship between our two parties are of particular importance in the efforts of the DP and all Albanian Democrats to confront the violence and terror inflicted upon them by the former communists who came to power in Albania, amid a complete absence of the rule of law and the highest government corruption on the continent, and to protect and restore in Albania the shared values upheld by our two parties. Warm regards, Sali BERISHA

Meta crowns Shuli

Europe is moving to the right

Aznar’s People’s Party won more than half the seats in the Spanish parliament on page 14

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers

Today, 540 days since Azem’s murder Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successors in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The government of the former communists, who have left free and undisturbed the criminals who took the life of the December Movement leader, shows Albanians that they have been and remain on the side of the murderers, who have hearts of their own but are untouched by those in power. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate this fact under any circumstances. The government must either arrest the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself carried out the murder of Azem Hajdari.

on page 4 Meta takes on Shuli on page 3 Gjinushi: Don’t touch my ministers on page 3 The Krraba miners, ready to begin the underground strike on page 8 Zana Çela challenges the Tirana court on page 6 State mafia runs the trafficking at Rinas on page 7