TENDER/ The mystery of the American company that offered the staggering sum ALBPETROL SURPRISE, THEY WANT 1 BILLION USD The leading company does not meet the five-year operating criterion in the hydrocarbons sector, and risks disqualification. What happened yesterday at the most talked-about tender for the sale of oil. Berisha and the ministers, having coffee with Fazlliç at Rogner The news It was completely unexpected for the public: the amount offered yesterday for the purchase of Albpetrol by an American company. Vetro Silkroad Equity promised 850 million euros, but the Evaluation Commission seems to have accepted its documents without the proper bank guarantee, worth 85 million euros TIRANE Genc Kondi An American company, completely unknown, not only to Albanians, Vetro Silkroad Equity LTD, submitted yesterday the highest bid for the purchase of the shares of Albpetrol in... Continues on pages 2-3 In the photo: The evaluation commission of bids for the privatization of the oil company “Albpetrol” and a facsimile of the law on the privatization formula of the state oil company “Albpetrol” LAW No. 10 490, dated 15.12.2011 ON DETERMINING THE FORM AND STRUCTURE OF THE PRIVATIZATION FORMULA OF THE COMPANY “ALBPETROL” SH.A. PATOS The Assembly of the Republic of Albania decided: The company “Albpetrol” sh.a. Patos will be in a strategic privatization process... ALBPETROL DECISION No. 167, dated 1.8.2012 ON APPROVING THE RULES FOR THE SUBMISSION, OPENING AND EVALUATION OF OFFERS FOR THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE COMPANY “ALBPETROL” SH.A. PATOS B) To be a company specialized in the fields of oil and gas trading, which has carried out these activities at an international level for not less than 5 (five) years

MEETING FAILURE Casinos “make” the councilors sick The municipality’s project takes gambling outlets to Shkozë. The parties do not agree TIRANE Esmeralda Keta The draft decision to move the casinos toward the Shkozë area seems to have been the “Achilles’ heel” that led to the cancellation, just 5 minutes before it was due to begin, of the meeting... Page 9

THE DEATH OF THE 28-YEAR-OLD Page 10-11 Family: Why didn’t they get her husband out of prison The tragic story of the mother of 4 children, crushed by a car in Rrogozhinë

Comment BY Enton Abilekaj A new spirit for political rotation The New Democratic Spirit started its path to change politics once and for all. Bamir Topi, at the head of a group of new, unspent politicians, announced a project against the worn-out ones. It could be a good opportunity to regenerate disappointed voters, who were the target of the former president. With the ambition not to align itself with the small parties in next year’s electoral showdown, Bamir Topi called for the return of those disappointed from 1990 to today. “An appeal that we did not address only to the right. As a guarantee, FRD gave disagreement with the two “old parties”, the refusal of the parceling out of government and the state, and another path of non-conflictual politics. This is not the first time that voters have been wooed with the fight against the two big parties. The Socialist Movement for Integration has tried it, and the Alliance of the Red and Black is trying it too. In the case of LSI, the lure had no effect on those disappointed and leaving the ballot boxes. The Alliance of the Red and Black seems to have managed to attract new voters, but it is still difficult to understand where they come from and how engaged they will be on voting day. Election statistics have... Continues on page 8

INTERVIEW Pages 4-5 Selami Xhepa: Democracy within the PD is flawed

DURRES Page 21 They invite him for sex, the couple fines the Kosovar 15 thousand euros

FORMER PRESIDENT Page 5 Topi in FRD: No to a coalition with PD and PS in 2013

AFTER THE INTERVIEW Page 6 DADE: UIDHERS IS RIGHT, THERE IS REGRESSION Shehu: He is one of the 6 billion people in the world

Pages 13-20 THASH & THEM Diellza Kolgeci: I do not allow fame to direct my life The beauty from “Bjeshkëve të nemuna” returns. Dafina Zeqiri, also a sexy DJ

BLOG Page 22 WE START FROM A BY Valbona Sulçe

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