Who are Meidani and Gjinushi’s people on the Election Commission
The appointment of State Security informant Pali Xhelo as secretary of the CEC, and the discovery two days later of his close ties with Parliament Speaker Skënder Gjinushi, show the determination to manipulate the electoral process at any cost. Now, starting with chairman Fotaq Nano and going all the way to Gjinushi’s Xhelo
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Nano-Meta, open warfare
In the PS, the clans’ race begins to pin the blame for the defeat
• PS chairman: “The Prime Minister is buying newspapers to use them not against Berisha, but against me. The grant for the print press must be cancelled”
• Scandal at a luxury establishment in the capital’s Grand Park. Meta publicly insults Nano
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The Ministry of Public Order, serving the PS campaign
By Bledi KASMI
The PS has put the Minister of Public Order, Poçi, at the head of its campaign headquarters for the capital. According to the PS platform, the minister responsible for depoliticized institutions will create all the electoral infrastructure
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The government protects Azem’s killers
Today, 679 days since the murder of the December leader
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 predecessor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world.
The governments of the former communists, who were free and unrestrained, tell Albanians that they are on the side of the criminals who took the December Leader’s life. The criminals have names, but those in power leave them untouched. Democrats and all Albanians who loved and honored Azem Hajdari cannot tolerate this 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.
Shkëlqim Cani, partner in “First Investment Bank”
Investment for the Balkans or for the Governor
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The state abuses democratically elected officials
The village head of Hamallaj is mistreated in the cells of the Shijak police station
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Meta rehabilitates General Andoni
The Prime Minister brings into the public eye the person accused of causing his wife’s death
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A woman executed in the “Studenti” district
The circumstances of the crime remain a mystery. The killer gets away under the police’s very noses
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NPA, shady dealings over the Soda Plant
Another scandalous corruption case in Vlorë
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Journalism turned upside down
By Antoneta MALJA
Some sections of the media have mastered servile reporting. They imitate the Western press to extremes, but in these inversions
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