Police: Both drivers are guilty. Expert: Another assessment is needed with the video footage EXCLUSIVE/ The preliminary report of the road police expertise on the collision on Elbasan Street has been revealed News The State Police has not yet given an answer, almost two months later, to the question of who is to blame for the tragic accident on Elbasan Street, where a 28-year-old woman died. In the forensic report of the road police obtained by “Shqiptarja.com”, both citizen Ledjan Ruçi and Edi Lika, who were traveling in the cars involved in the crash, are blamed. In the photo: Facsimile of the first and last page of the forensic report (below) The vehicle picking up the injured from the wrecked “Mini Cooper” TIRANA The State Police has not given an answer as to who is responsible for the accident that occurred on the night of 20 November 2011 at the intersection of Elbasan Street, where a young 28-year-old woman died, after the collision of the car driven by Ledjan Ruçi, the son of Gramoz Ruçi, and another citizen’s car. The expert report, carried out just one day later and said at the outset to be preliminary, blames both drivers, who entered on a red light, when in fact this is impossible, since both were speeding and neither showed care in reducing speed at the intersection. In the fatal accident of 20 November 2011, the 28-year-old Brunilda Pinderi died and both drivers were initially arrested for this, but two days... continued on page 2 In the photo: Facsimile of the first and last page of the forensic report (below) The vehicle picking up the injured from the wrecked “Mini Cooper”

"The Economist" Page 13 Rona Nishliu, a distinctive voice and story in Eurovision

Editorial BY Anila Basha Topi and the dilemmas that even a ball can't play with For some time now, in Albanian politics, many have been thinking about Bamir Topi’s new party. The voices are no longer secret; it has now been publicly declared that the President of the Republic, after his term ends, will have his own party. But what seems not to be working in Bamir Topi’s new initiative? Berisha tries to belittle it, while Rama, on the contrary, wants to give it voice. If Bamir Topi is going to hang his political fate, and above all that of these two major parties, on their statements, that means he has already lost the battle. First, because both political forces see him as a satellite: one side believes Topi is sponsored by the left, while the other gives voice to the movement because it thinks it can win some votes from the right. Second, neither political side really sees Bamir Topi as a factor in electoral reform, which means that, apart from the legislative initiative, Bamir Topi will spend a lot of time and energy creating the new party from scratch. Third, it is tied to the name of the current president: most of the people who are now standing by him are more concerned with the fact that he will be the party leader, and less with how organized the party will be at grassroots level. At this moment, Bamir Topi does not answer any of these questions. He needs to take care of the presidential term in order to close it properly, just as he needs to care about building the structures of the new party, without wanting anyone to say that this is Bamir Topi’s party. The creation of a party is a voluntary union of ideas and values, and has nothing whatsoever to do with who is President of the Republic. Bamir Topi has a positive initiative; what matters is that no one should misuse it, either in the way it is presented to the electorate or in the way other political forces seek to exploit it. Time has shown that parties are not made by one man alone; political program and the hope for change it brings to people can break the bipolar reality that currently exists among the Albanian electorate.

GENC KONDI In the first two Treasury bill auctions of the Albanian state for 2012, the Albanian government took on a debt of 27.4 billion lek, following the bond auction of 4 January and several consecutive auctions at the end of 2011. Just yesterday, around 260 million US dollars were collected... continued on pages 6-7

Page 14 Terror in Kamëz, bullets for the groom because he split up his sister Page 4 Rama-Allies meeting, Ngjela, Gjinushi and Ndoka crack jokes

Page 5 Topi's party, Tritan Shehu: It does not harm us, it is not like LSI Page 9 The tributes, Berisha boycotts prosecutor Hana’s ceremony

Page 10 Procedures and fees, how to do higher studies in France Page 11 English at the University, TOEFL threatens 14,000 students

2012 starts with a barrage of complaints about the sale of government bonds. Another auction on 16 January

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