PROPERTY/ The Royal Court spokesman Sulejman Gjana responds Prince Leka II is claiming the property near the Assembly of Albania. The Court: “The Royal Family did not donate the property. In 1997, it was taken back in a strange way” The News The former princesses’ palace has not been donated to the Red Cross by the royal family, but by the Italian occupiers who seized the building. The deputy chairman of the Legality Party says that, with a strange decision, in the time of democracy this property was returned again to the Red Cross, its lawful owners. TIRANE Elton Qyno The former princesses’ palace, located opposite the parliament building, has turned into a conflict not only in court, but also in public statements, where after the Red Cross’s claims that the building is in its ownership, the reaction comes from a member of the royal court who says that the property was given to the Red Cross by the occupiers… ► continues on page 8

REQUEST FOR CANDIDATES The SMS he sent yesterday to the PS deputies about the candidate for president Rama to MPs: President by SMS The PS leader gathers the chairs and vice-chairs of the parliamentary committees. Tomorrow at midday, the Rama-Berisha meeting TIRANE Jakin Marena PS leader Edi Rama gathered the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the parliamentary groups, representatives of the PS, whom he asked to send him an “SMS” with the text with which the PS deputies should bring him by today at midday one candidate name for President… ► Page 2

Commentary BY AFRIM KRASNIQI Imprisoned by politics Yesterday was June 1, the official day of children — the day when society turns its eyes and attention to the many problems children face, their living conditions, education, health, and family care. In Tirana and in our main cities, dozens of “children’s” activities were organized, with one difference from European practice: they were not for children, but most of them were staged by politics using children as a façade. Anyone who passed yesterday morning in front of the Palace of Congresses heard music rehearsals, songs, and constant megaphone calls announcing that in a little while among them would be a Prof. Dr. who is prime minister, another official who heads parliament, another who has taken a seat in the Ministry of Labor, etc. There were no poems and songs about the primer, nor about children’s characters, there were no circus or female humor characters, there were no praises for talented children in school or for their creativity — simply and only, a manly script with folk songs, fights and the national anthem in a two-hour wait for the leader of the first party in the country. A reminiscence that reminds us of the period we thought we had left behind in 1990. Yesterday’s top news in the media for June 1 were the speeches of the head of the party in government, then the one in opposition, then the party’s deputies in parliament, then the party minister, then the party chairman in the municipality and finally, as usual, the “humanitarian” activities of the spouses of most of them. That was all. As always, as every day, as for everything. Even the day before, when the tragedy with the first hospital helicopter happened in Himarë, it was not the doctors who went to the scene, but the ministers themselves and the speaker of parliament. At the military hospital, the first to arrive were not the medical teams, blood-donation volunteers or donors of… ► continues on page 6

► Pages 13-20 Ermali and Françeska: Our relationship is more beautiful outside. Arbëri: The group in BB is mine

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SHKODER ► Page 10 Wanted in Italy, handcuffs for the municipality chairman

INTERVIEW ► Page 7 Jorgo Goro: Urban plan, here is where it will be built in Himarë

MONUMENTS ► Page 21 Cleared of trash, relics discovered in Tepelenë Castle

INTERVIEW ► Page 4 Zaganjori: I sent Topalli back twice for the doctorate

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