The Municipality of Tirana supports “Orange” for organizing the New Year’s party, documents emerge The friend of Erjon Isufi, Lulzim Basha’s brother-in-law, emails businessmen: If you want, contact Odeta or Erjon

The scandal of abuses by the head of Tirana municipality, Lulzim Basha, with the funds of the capital’s residents, deepens. This time it is about a huge decoration of Tirana for Christmas and New Year, where the setting up of a tourist village with 40 wooden huts on the pedestrian street is planned. And everything has been entrusted to the company “Orange Advertising”, which is owned by people close to Basha.

■■■TIRANA ESMERALDA KETA The decorations of Tirana, also for the year-end holidays, have been handed by mayor Lulzim Basha to his own people. Once again the name of the company “Orange Advertising” comes to the fore, a company that not only was created just a few days ago, but is owned by Odeta Malaj, the girl who organized the election campaign for the head of the Tirana municipality, and Dionis Teqja, who is a partner in several other businesses with Erion Isufi, the brother of Lulzim Basha’s wife. And this time it is about funds many times larger than the money spent on the November festivities, which are clearly surpassed by what the municipality has decided to spend on the year-end celebrations, where only the rent that businessmen will pay for the wooden huts on the pedestrian street is 3000 thousand euros, for one month. “Shqiptarja.com” has managed to obtain confidential documents, which not only prove the abuses of the mayor in favor of people close to him and his family, but also all the details of how this tourist village will be organized or the place where it will be set up... continues on page 2 In the photo: Draft project of the tourist village, prepared by “Orange Advertising” (top) Facsimile of Stela Dhami’s e-mail with the businessmen

Analysis BY ENO CACAJ A DJ for the Socialist Party This is what is currently happening to the chairman of the PSSH. Like a real DJ, a professional one, he has put the headphones on and does not listen at all to what you might tell him. He mixes programs. Ideas. Factories. Dialogues. Gatherings. Tents. Strength. All of this with his own taste. Teams of experts. Committees. Who will speak. Who will write. Who will debate. Assemblies. Presidium. Tone and the mixer on how he will bring them with the position. With the EU. USA. Everything according to what Rama thinks is valuable. Most importantly, how he will come to power. And moreover, now there is also a pact and a “bass” reduction with Berisha, therefore in the list of mixtures he will serve to Albanians. Ah, I forgot! Also a book. ...are the elements that pushed me to call the chairman of the PSSH, my party, a DJ. He sets the music he wants and we, as customers, are in a disco[...] or a large pub... All these are the elements that pushed me to call the chairman of the PSSH, my party, a DJ. He sets the music he wants and we, as customers of a nightclub or a large pub, full of opinions and thoughts, for or against, why not even differently, are left to sway to the rhythm of this music. But I think this is not in the interest of the PSSH. If it were another party, whoever it might be, perhaps it would be a normal thing. PSSH is the largest party of Albanians and carries within it all kinds of social strata. Even the countryside. Or the periphery. There, where PSSH is losing more and more votes, election after election. The reason is known to all of us. In all the dialogues or gatherings that Rama undertook at the base, he failed to identify the handicap that this party had created. And this only through people. The disease of... continues on page 7

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