BLOG / PERIFERI Page 22 The Prime Minister’s Sad Happiness BY ALBA MALLTEZI

The Energy Regulatory Entity decided yesterday that a state administrator will manage the work of electricity distribution to consumers, while the company CEZ will keep its assets. The split into two parts comes ahead of the election campaign. TIRANE Genc Kondi The company CEZ will no longer be the only entity operating in the field of electricity distribution. On January 21 the formal decision is also expected to be taken by the Entity... continues on pages 2-3

ON THE EVE OF THE CELEBRATION Page 5 Majko: How the poppy changed, they considered it a narcotic flower The former forum leader speaks about the first emblem of FRESSH

BLOG / DAY FOUR Page 22 TODAY WE ARE ALL POOR BY VALBONA SULÇE

ELECTION INVITATION Berisha calls on Meta: Come and let us defeat Edi Rama The PD campaign slogan: We are change, forward”

TIRANE Jakin Marena Prime Minister Berisha, at the PD presidency meeting, invites Meta for a pre-election coalition to defeat... Page 4

Comment BY Genci KODJHELI Officials like Isa “It is not weapons that kill people, it is people who kill people” - this is the slogan with which the American Gun Association (NRA) has for years promoted the idea that firearms in themselves are not dangerous, but rather it is the human element that makes them dangerous. While the debate over limiting the sale/circulation of firearms in the United States has continued for years and has flared up even more after the recent massacre in Sandy Hook, here on our side the government is undertaking an extremely strange legislative initiative (in substance and also considering the moment in which it is presented) to amend the Weapons Law, including among the people entitled to carry firearms also deputy ministers and prefects. To analyze this government initiative, one must first analyze from the standpoint of political-legal logic for what reasons the legal change is undertaken. In the context of the legal norming of society (that is, the drafting and implementation of laws), provisions such as those of the law on... continues on page 22

AFRESKU Pages 20-21 Intellectuals react: Minister Bumçi should resign

ARMEMBAJTJA Page 9 The Lezha Court, two years in prison for Shullazi’s friend

NIKOLIN GURAKUQI: 10 MONTHS WITHOUT HIS SON The opera director’s account of parental pain SKËNDERBEU’S WEAPONS ARE LEAVING ON SUNDAY The exhibition, seen by 1.7 million people, is nearing its end Pages 13-17

What the family members of those killed on 21 January told me Pages 10-11