TABLES WITH FIGURES 2013 BUDGET / Funds for municipalities where PD-PS are neck and neck are increased THE LEFT, BERISHA WILL “BUY” THEM WITH LEK Draft budget: financing in Tirana, Durrës, Vlorë, Fier, Korçë, Elbasan and Kavajë rises by 7 percent. Berat, Gjirokastra and Saranda see minimal increases. Finally, the prime minister’s hometown The story In next year’s draft budget, the use of “coefficients” in allocating funds to the country’s main municipalities is very clear, mainly in areas that the government is trying to entice during the election campaign ■■ TIRANA GENC KONDI The funds planned in Berisha’s government draft budget for the coffers of the country’s main municipalities in the 2013 election year have been subjected to a careful assessment, which can be said to constitute... ► continues on pages 2-3

Duraku: PD, citizens from Kosovo for the elections ► Page 5

BLOG / OUTSKIRTS ► Page 22 TIRANA IN CELEBRATION AND THE FOREIGNERS BY ALBA MALTEZI

MEETING ON THE INTERNET ► Page 7 Sali Berisha: How Enver Hoxha’s son’s name escaped me The story with the computer and Sokol Hoxha

EXHIBITION ► Page 20 Ponari: The challenges of bringing Skanderbeg’s weapons

Commentary BY GENCI KOJDHELI I appoint you to dismiss Within the framework of the many-fronted struggle to seize every institution of this pseudo-democratic state of ours, one of the battles of the governing majority is also the one to replace the Prosecutor General, Ina Rama, by November 2012. The reasons for this battle initiated by the Prime Minister to dismiss the chief prosecutor, which President Nishani is also echoing, can be said to be politically trivial and... ► continues on page 22

MEDICO-LEGAL REPORT The boy killed in Klos, alive under gravel for 48 hours The terrible agony of Fatjon Barmeta. His father: Justice, or vigilante justice ■■ TIRANA HABJON HASANI The forensic autopsy reveals the shocking fact. The 23-year-old killed in Mat, Fatjon Barmeta, survived ... ► Page 9

Weekend “ON NOVEMBER 28 I WANT RED-AND-BLACK GOOGLE” ► Pages 13-19 ■ “ON NOVEMBER 28 I WANT RED-AND-BLACK GOOGLE” The story of Korçë native Klajdi Hëna, the initiator of the petition ■ “IN BUDVA I WILL SING FOR INDEPENDENCE” An interview with Makashi, the concert for the November holidays

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