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27 June 2012

TOPI: MY MISSION IN POLITICS

"I have an official list of former Sigurimi members" INTERVIEW/ The president's assessment of his 5-year term and the future "My return is not for narrow, petty interests, but to help citizens." The Constitution was made only in favor of increasing the authoritarianism of two people. What does he think of Berisha, Rama, Topalli, Nishani and Meta

News

Acting President Bamir Topi said on the program “Tonight” that he comes into politics as a missionary. While he has not spared criticism of PS leader Rama over the Constitution changes and Berisha's statement about vote stealing, he has also said that there are former spies in politics.

TIRANA

ILVA TARE Acting President Bamir Topi in an interview for the program “Tonight” talks about politics, Berisha, Rama and the “files” In a political match between PS and PD, which side are you on...? Such things cannot be brought together. I said I have no... continued on pages 10-11

Comment

BY GENCI KOJDHELI Shut up or pay In these 20-odd years of democracy (so-called democracy, I mean), from the mouths of politicians, MPs, ministers and prime ministers we have heard all kinds of accusations, insults, slander, fabrications and promises, so many that they cannot be counted, so many that the people often and very quickly forget them, and even those who uttered them themselves forget them. It is normal in democracy for people in general, and politicians more specifically, to speak freely, since after all freedom of speech is one of the most essential elements of the governing system we have chosen for the country. All healthy and effective democracies in the world recognize conceptually and legally that parliamentarians must be free to express their views without fear of legal persecution, because only thus can they properly represent the electorate that voted for them. This principle has been inherited from the distant year 1397, when a member of the English parliament, Sir Thomas Haxey, criticized in Parliament the excessively high living costs of the family of King Richard II, and for more than six centuries... Continued on page 10

January 21, PD blocks Ina Rama from speaking about the killings

REPORTING IN PARLIAMENT January 21, PD blocks Ina Rama from speaking about the killings Asked why she did not testify in the inquiry committee. Court: no one convicted over the elections

TIRANA

FERNADA CENKO The Albanian Prosecutor General did not mention the January 21 massacre in any case, while reporting on crime... Pages 2-3

Ekspres Bingo

ALBANIAN BINGO The results of the draw of 26 June 2012, played on TV Klan Winning numbers are on page 12

Ekspres Bingo, the winners' list

Many gifts and prizes go all over the country Page 12

Minor caught

The bodyguard's pistol of Ina Rama is being sold Page 15

Lunch.com

Leonard Solis, the politician doctor under scrutiny BY MIRA KAZHANI Page 14

WARNING

Page 9 EC: Albania failed to obtain candidate status

THE SPECIALIST

Page 7 Teenagers now party with ecstasy and marijuana

THE AUSTRIANS

Page 16 Lottery, the criteria determined the future winners

THE EVENT

Page 16 The kidnapped baby, the parents find it in the maternity ward