Ilir Meta appoints the PS chairman to head the municipality

The latest madness of those in power: The Prime Minister appoints the mayor of Lushnjë in violation of the law on page 3

Mema, or the bandit commissioner

Here are some of the exploits of Spartak Poçi’s deputy in Laç Poçi’s man, with a secondary-school education in animal husbandry, head of the Rescue Committee in Gramsh. From shepherd he becomes a commissioner. In five days in Laç, he abuses dozens of citizens. Among them, businesspeople, police officers, innocent villagers, etc. on page 5

“Yes man,” or vassal politicians

By Mitro ÇELA In September 1992, together with Azem Hajdari, we met Prime Minister Andreioti. He showed us Mr. Kardili’s fax. Then he told him: “A-ma-mit: Dictatorship is outside a person and inside them. The first is overthrown, as the Berlin Wall came down. The inner dictatorship still lives in some politicians, who have complexes about foreigners. They cover up their incompetence with servility. They say “Yes” when they should say “No”. In politics these people are called “Yes Men” and they are the most dangerous virus for the fate of a nation. Willingly and for personal gain, they become faithful servants of foreign diplomats, sell their souls and authority to foreigners, turning partnership between countries into vassalage! on page 7

An ancient tragedy in our times

By Visar ZHITI These days, the last tragedy of Greek antiquity, “The Bacchae” by Euripides, was staged around our country by a Milanese theatre, A.T.I.R., in collaboration with our Academy of Arts, under the auspices of the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana. Serena Sinigaglia’s directorial vision, the movements, voices, music, mise-en-scènes, lights and shadows, the language (Italian and at times Albanian), the new, chaos and calm, collective madness and silence, monologue and noise, violence and humanity, those who perpetrate it and those who suffer it on page 7

Berisha celebrates with students for two hours

A grand welcome for the opposition Leader at Qyteti “Studenti” on page 4

Court: 5 years in prison for Alimuça

The VEFA case trial concludes on page 8

Unemployment and poverty affect 75% of the population

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Dajçi: “Spartak Poçi is the chief trafficker”

The deputy chairman of the PD parliamentary group denounces the scenarios of the Minister of Public Order to destabilize the country on page 2