Police: Both drivers are at fault. Expert: Another expert examination with the footage is needed EXCLUSIVE/ The preliminary report of the road police expertise on the collision on Elbasan Road has been revealed News The State Police has not yet, almost two months later, given an answer to the question of who was at fault in the tragic accident on Elbasan Road, where a 28-year-old woman died. In the police road-expertise report obtained by “Shqiptarja.com”, both the citizen Ledjan Ruçi and Edi Lika, who were traveling in the cars involved in the crash, are blamed. In the photo: Facsimile of the first and last page of the expertise report (below) Doctors taking the injured from the wrecked “Mini Cooper” TIRANA The State Police has not given an answer as to who was responsible for the accident that occurred on the night of 20 November 2011 at the intersection of Elbasan Road, where a 28-year-old woman died after the car driven by Ledjan Ruçi, son of Gramoz Ruçi, collided with another citizen’s car. The expertise report, prepared just one day later and said to be preliminary, blames both drivers for entering on a red light, which in fact is impossible, since both were speeding and neither exercised caution to slow down at the intersection. In the fatal accident of 20 November 2011, the 28-year-old Brunilda Pinderi died and both drivers were initially arrested for this, but two days... continued on page 2

Editorial BY ANILA BASHA Topi and the dilemmas that even Topi cannot solve It has been a while now that someone in Albanian politics has been thinking about Bamir Topi’s new party. The voices are no longer secret; it has now been publicly declared that the president of the republic, after his term ends, will have his own party. But what seems not to work in Bamir Topi’s new initiative? Berisha tries to downplay it, while Rama, on the contrary, seeks to give it voice. If Bamir Topi places his political fate, and above all that of these two major parties, in their statements, this means the battle has been lost. First, because both political forces see him as a satellite; one side thinks Topi has been sponsored by the left, while the other gives voice to the movement because it thinks it can win some votes from the right. Second, neither political side has seated Bamir Topi as a factor in the electoral reform, which means that, beyond the legislative initiative, Bamir Topi will spend a lot of time and energy creating the new party around him. Third, it is linked to the name of the current president: most of the people who are now at his side are more concerned with the fact that he will be the party leader, not with how organized the party will be at the grassroots level. At this moment, Bamir Topi has not answered any of these questions. He needs to take care of the presidential mandate and close it as he should, just as he must take care of building the structures of the new party, without wanting anyone to say that this is Bamir Topi’s party. Creating a party is a voluntary union of ideas and values, and has nothing at all to do with the fact of who is the president of the republic. Bamir Topi has a positive initiative; what matters is that no one exploits it, either in the way it is presented to the electorate or in the way other political forces seek to exploit it. Time has shown that a party is not made by a single person; the political program and the hope for change it brings to people can break the bipolar reality that exists today in the Albanian electorate.

GENC KONDI In the first two auctions of state treasury bills for 2012, the Albanian government took on a debt of 27.4 billion lek, after the bond auction of 4 January and after several consecutive auctions at the end of 2011. Only yesterday, around 260 million US dollars were collected... continued on pages 6-7 NERANXI ... always one step ahead... Syrups for cocktails and liqueurs for bars and restaurants Address: Tirana-Durrës Highway, km 7, Yrshek, Tirana; Tel: 042 406 500; 042 406 501; Fax 042 405 502; e-mail: neranxi@neranxi.com; www.neranxi.com

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Page 5 Topi’s party, Tritan Shehu: It does not harm us, it is not like LSI Page 9 The tributes, Berisha boycotts prosecutor Hana’s ceremony

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2012 begins with a “barrage” of auctions for the sale of government bonds. Another auction on 16 January