The salvation of Vlorë for Independence
Interview with the mayor of Vlorë. Details of the celebrations in the city of the flag
100th Anniversary of Independence
Vlorë’s celebration, different, with flags and flowers, without lambs
Every Vlora home and heart open to friends
The mayor: the funds, the government put a hood over its head
... Vlorë
By ANILA BASHA
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n 28 November Vlorë will be in its most beautiful festive day. It will have the appearance and brilliance of a lady who 100 years ago gave birth to a state, and then worked for a nation, and more importantly changed a mentality.... Albanian flags will wave on every balcony, in shops and houses, in the streets, cars and buses... But it will be the flag raised by Ismail Qemali in Vlorë and not the distorted one that is flying in state institutions, this state that is alive by division and not unity, who want to celebrate in Tirana with a 4-ton cake as if they were breaking a Guinness World Record and filling the streets with blood, slaughtering thousands of rams and lambs...
Shpëtim Gjika, the Mayor of Vlorë, tells in this exclusive interview what the atmosphere will be like around the important day knocking on the door of the city of the flag. But Gjika also offers his comments on...
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In the photo:
The Mayor of Vlorë,
Shpëtim Gjika
In the photo: The Mayor of Vlorë, Shpëtim Gjika