IMMUNITIES/ Socialist Party MP Tahiri: Apart from the prime minister’s family members, also businesspeople and drivers Mehmet Shkreli, a Garda employee, bought 49 percent of the company’s shares for 355 euro. Intercepts of former Partizani president Paro Laçi: What business does Meti have interfering with the Minister over the mine permit The news Sali Berisha’s driver, Mehmet Shkreli, an employee of the Republican Guard decorated by this institution, owns 49% of the shares of a chrome mine in Bulqizë. Although there is a notarial contract, strangely, this share-purchase contract worth 355 euro has not been recorded in the National Registration Center. ■■■ TIRANA Genc Kondi After family members, it seems that other people close to Prime Minister Berisha are also involved in powerful and profitable private business. The accusation came yesterday from Socialist MP Saimir Tahiri, who made public a notarial deed from 2010, signed between guard officer Mehmet Shkreli, long-time driver of ... ► continued on pages 2-3 In the photo: Prime Minister Berisha in his car (circled) driver Mehmet Shkreli. (Right) Facsimile of the contract for the purchase of 49% of the shares of the factory in Bulqizë

Editorial BY Anila Basha No referendum Did Berisha fool the socialists in Parliament yesterday when he asked for a referendum on immunity? They were unprepared. But it seems that in this pack there are also wise people, those who drafted, helped, and stamped the founding document of the state. Sali Berisha and his political force cannot hold any referendum on the issue of immunity. The Constitution of the Republic of Albania, in its Article 177 on “Constitutional revisions,” provides that a referendum on a constitutional amendment may be held only after this change has received the votes of two-thirds of the members of Parliament. After ... ► continued on page 18

REBUTTALS AND ACCUSATIONS Fehmi Abdiu: Impossible, the constitution does not allow it without going through Parliament ■■■ TIRANA Jakin Marena Yesterday’s parliamentary session failed to vote on the draft law to abolish parliamentary immunity through a constitutional amendment ... ► Page 6-7

Comment BY *Artan Xh. Duka Rebirth with reborn ones The majority with 8 years in power has at the extreme exhausted the chance for inspiration, while in its ‘shift’ it encountered the most blatant wrongs with the free vote, the alteration of legitimate property in favor of the ‘parapets’ of power, the twice-lost train to Europe, the dehumanization of public services, the degradation and anarchy of the urban and rural habitat, the absurd sale in a time of crisis of strategic assets while a vicious circle of poverty is threatened, ... the overthrow of sovereignty with the sea agreement, the violation of the sanctity of citizens’ lives, the sanctioning of the ‘league of spoiled soup’ ... ► continued on page 18

A cancer drug is being sold in Tirana ► Page 10

Maternity hospital, mystery over the loss of the mother and baby ► Page 17

SHIU, Imami decides: Demiraj will be deputy director ► Page 4

STRATEGY ► Page 9 Property, the government does not recognize any compensation bill

TWO VICTIMS ► Page 15 Poliçan, the gruesome crime, he killed his brother, the avenger saws off his head

DOCUMENTARY ► Page 19 CNN: Besa, the code that preserved the Jewish community in Albania

SHOW ► Page 14 Portokalli, two Kavajë mayors in front of 10 thousand people

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