ELECTIONS ARE AT RISK PS, LSI, PBDNJ are preparing tough positions for the parliamentary session CEC, TODAY’S FIGHT IN PARLIAMENT THE OPPOSITION WITHOUT NAMES. THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE THIRD MEMBER IS EXPECTED

Prime Minister Berisha’s insistence on changing the CEC risks the holding of the June 23 elections Pages 4-5

Pages 2-3 IN PHOTO: The meetings of the chairs of the PS and LSI, with Jonathan Moore The US lose confidence in free elections Rama-Meta meeting with Moore: Berisha destroyed the CEC State Department verification of government funds for the “Podesta group”

BY PREÇ ZOGAJ On January 21 after April 1 and June 23 In a recent interview, the head of the newspaper “Tema” regarding the famous video that sparked the January 21, 2011 demonstration, MP Dritan Prifti sheds light on a backstage unknown to the opposition public of the time. “Rama invited me every night to try to persuade me to show the video,” Prifti says, giving concrete addresses and concrete witnesses to a series of meetings with the leader of the Socialist Party, who asked him to publish as soon as possible the discrediting video against Ilir Meta. Prifti’s account of this backstage scene paints a picture of frantic pressure on him, office after office with great promises and other, more chilling details. If this is so — and it seems to be so, since there is no denial from Rama’s office — then, in order to honor the truth, we must make the necessary clarifications in the prologue to the tragic January 21. First, the history of the video’s publication was apparently not simply a media scoop that fell like a bomb, as it was then presented at the table of the United Opposition, but a... continues on page 18

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Woman shoots husband with two bullets Leonora Zaçellari shot her husband with a pistol after he abused her every day

Page 5 Yesterday’s meeting of the opposition councillors PS-LSI officially overturn Tirana, Durrës and Fier

ARTUR KORRIKU Crime within the family shocks Durrës. A woman fired twice with a pistol at her husband, injuring him... Page 11

HEALTH “HEALTH” Pages 13-17 Breast cancer, new treatments and hope for seriously ill patients What is idiopathic scoliosis

“Uninteresting” final, first time Laçi-Bylis Page 22

“Albania must be freed from Berisha” Page 7

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