PDK confirms it, LZHK is waiting Deputies too, the majority is at risk The creation of the new force also conditions the election of the President. Oketa: I am with him too

Topi's new party, once created, will have ready-made right-wing allies, namely Nard Ndoka's PDK. And Shehi, the head of the LZHK, has not denied such an alliance after the creation of this party. If the composition of the new party includes deputies from the PD ranks, the election of the President becomes more complicated. TIRANA JAKIN MARENA The new party of the current President Bamir Topi, which is expected to come to life in the spring after the completion of the electoral reform, has already found its first allies in the right-wing political spectrum. The first confirmation came from the head of the Christian Democratic Party of Albania, Nard Ndoka, who says that immediately after the creation of the new party he will join it in a coalition, thus creating the nucleus of a third pole in Albanian politics. A political pole made up only of right-wing parties, in order to also take the place it deserves in the center-right spectrum, which according to the initiating group of the new party and the PDK is unjustly held by the Democratic Party. "I naturally see cooperation up to a coalition with the parties of the right-wing spectrum. All the more so because a... continues on page 3

Documents Page 8 The murder of Konomi The Prosecutor’s Office: There are forgeries of property

Editorial BY AFRIM KRASNIQI 2011: the last, but proud With the end of the calendar year, by tradition, senior politicians present their annual balance sheet. In the USA, President Obama admitted that he could have done more for his economic program, in Germany Merkel said that the euro crisis found us unprepared, in Britain the problems with European relations were acknowledged, in Italy and Greece economic management was considered the biggest failure. In Albania, the place of the balance sheet (success-failure) is taken by a parade of "historic" achievements. Thus, unlike the Western tradition, in our tradition senior politicians, ministers, heads of the police, tax authorities, customs, education, health, etc., compete on television screens by promoting extraordinary successes and achievements. In Albania, the place of the balance sheet (success-failure) is taken by a parade of “historic” achievements In the year when we, because of parliamentary dysfunction and the lack of reforms, were penalized by the rejection of the invitation to the EU, the executive and legislative power says that the greatest achievements in history have been recorded. In the year when the country was hit by the economic crisis, when the word "investment" was replaced by official "savings", senior officials tell us that we have the highest growth in Europe. In the year when 22 public attacks on businesses and even judges remain unsolved, when banks are robbed in 9 cases and recently also a minister's car, the police says that we have never been safer. In the year when the 13th victim is recorded in the Bulqiza mine-grave, or when at Christmas the media reports the death of a child from poverty, senior officials say that we live... continues on page 6

ESMERALDA KETA Yesterday’s meeting of the municipal council resembled a farce. The mayor not only arrived late, but left the hall several times. There was no shortage of jokes about the municipal police guarding the beaches, nor irony about the 3,000-euro kiosks administered by Basha’s brother-in-law... continues on pages 10-11

Page 6 The Lesi-Nano conflict SMS messages after the joke with the BBC journalist Page 7 Execution in Shkozet, nephew killed his uncle over a 3,000-euro debt

Page 4 Albania a developed country? Berisha against the World Bank Page 9 The accident in Tirana, the 20-year-old suffered a heart attack before the crash

CONTINUES SPECIAL Page 14 2012 Horoscope, the Sagittarius and Capricorn signs Love, work, health and money in the coming year

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