THE DECISION IS REVEALED/ Rewards from participation in the boards of the prime minister and ministers The prime minister awards himself 1.2 million lek as chairman of KRRTRSH and of the Large Dams High-ranking officials receive from 20 thousand lek for meetings of commissions and formal councils The prime minister awards himself 1.2 million lek as chairman of KRRTRSH and of the Large Dams High-ranking officials receive from 20 thousand lek for meetings of commissions and formal councils The News In times of crisis, the ministers and the prime minister himself decide to increase their income in the boards of state institutions with honoraria ranging from 50 thousand old lek for one session, up to 1.8 million lek per year, in those cases where the meetings are monthly. Berisha appears, not only as chairman of the board of the Territorial Regulation of the Republic, but also of the Large Dams board TIRANE Genc Kondi While he came to power by sharply criticizing the presence of former Socialist state officials on the boards of state institutions, in return for payment, the current government has also not, at any moment, given up the honoraria for participation ... continues on pages 2-3

BY ARBEN RROZHANI A bad beginning The Parliament of Albania began the new parliamentary session yesterday in the most unworthy way and with the most mocking continuation imaginable. Instead of opening the curtain on a new political season, at least for the two major political forces PD and PS, yesterday’s plenary session delivered an extension of the previous sessions. Warlike rhetoric, mutual accusations, personal attacks and political threats were part of the speeches delivered by the Speaker of Parliament, Topalli, and the parliamentary group leaders of PD and PS, respectively, Patozi and Ruçi. In a hall where the country’s prime minister was absent, as he was taking two days of meetings at the Slovenian resort of Bled, and where most of the cabinet ministers did not bother to come, not a single word was said about the economic crisis in the country, shocking crime and tragic accidents, or the fires that have reduced the country’s forests to ashes. And, as if to close the short first day after the long summer holidays and set off again with more holidays, the ridiculous Parliament voted with right-wing and left-wing votes on the normative act on “noise pollution.” There were 112 mixed votes that turn your stomach, when one votes to make a law that the government launched as a battle with “windmills” and that it is now voting on, with the tourist season already over together with the noise that deafened young and old throughout these three months of the tourist season. The Socialist opposition became party to this masquerade, acting like the government as if blind and deaf, not seeing and not hearing the disturbing news of today and tomorrow, because beyond noise pollution or the anti-smoking law, the country and Albanians need bread, work and order. This was the bad beginning, leaving very little hope for what follows.

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Doctors get an extra 30 thousand lek if they work in the countryside Ferry leaves 2000 passengers in Bari, they sleep outside Page 17 Doctors, 30 thousand lek extra if they work in the countryside Ferry leaves 2000 passengers in Bari, they sleep outside Page 10