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Rilindja Demokratike

2 September 2000

Today, everyone to “Skënderbej” Square

The DP launches its victory campaign: “With our vote, let us change Albania” On Saturday, 2 September, at 18:00, the DP launches its victory campaign in “Skënderbej” Square for the local elections of 1 October. “Today we vote, today we decide, today we win”

The government acknowledges the attack on Topalli

International pressure forces Meta and Poçi to break off the agreement with the armed gang Clash between the police and the gang that organized the ambush at Peshkëpi

Poçi was left holding the Kalashnikov

By Astrit PATOZI The government of anti-opposition phalanxes was finally forced yesterday to admit that the ambush at Peshkëpi targeting the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, took place exactly as the Democratic Party had stated. A contingent of police officers under Spartak Poçi clashed yesterday at Peshkëpi with the gang that organized the incident involving Ms. Topalli, after encountering armed resistance from its protagonists. The gang’s fierce response to the police—the gang that threatened to kill the Deputy Speaker of Parliament—may be considered normal on page 5

Today we vote, today we decide, today we win

Berisha meets with local DP leaders Today we vote, today we decide, today we win 2 October will be the great reckoning of Albanian voters with their most disfigured, most despicable rulers in the history of pluralism. In this campaign, Albanians will know how to give a fitting answer to those who promised to return the money lost in the pyramid schemes, but plundered all the assets of those schemes, have today become millionaires from their properties and from the more than 130 million dollars they received from banks on the basis of their assets. on page 4

Will Edvin Rama clean up Tirana?!!!

By Edi PALOKA Edvin of the SP declared yesterday that he intends to clean up Tirana if elected mayor. Coming from any candidate for mayor, this is a normal expression on page 5

Mustafaj: Here is what I will do for Tirana

The DP candidate presents his platform for the development of the Albanian metropolis We will establish effective local autonomy, local government that responds promptly to the needs of its citizens, above all, widely discussed and swift services, the essential participation of citizens in local-government affairs through referendums or public-opinion forums and many other forms known and tested by the democratic world; a thorough reform of local government on pages 8–9

The USA demands that the attack on Topalli be solved

Berisha meets with Ambassador Frowick on page 3

The SP begins its campaign for a major defeat

Edvin Rama’s campaign slush funds on page 3

The government protects Azem’s killers

Today, 720 days since the murder of the December leader Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and its successors in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The government must either capture the criminals and bring them to justice, or publicly declare that it itself committed the murder of Azem Hajdari.

NATIONAL LIBRARY TIRANA

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