EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The ever-accused man speaks out by the prime minister: This is why he attacks me NARD KOKA: BERISHA DOESN’T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT ► Pages 2-3 ● MY SMUGGLING?! THE DOCTOR SHOULD ASK SHPËTIM IDRIZI. HE KNOWS VERY WELL...

Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ We need an international CEC Only with seven foreign members in the Central Election Commission can the situation be resolved. For example, seven ambassadors, with the chair to be Estroja, or Alexandris, and members in turn to be the ambassadors of Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, etc. These are the countries that have been “stuck” with Albanian affairs for 23 years now. If they are not approved, each embassy could lend us its respective lawyer, who in that time has learned from Albanian laws and has at least read something about the electoral code. The conviction is that none of the parties would oppose such a development, although in the end we would earn the stigma of a country that cannot find seven unchallenged people and that at the end of the elections, in the end, the loser gives the hand to the winner, or at least graciously accepts defeat. What is happening is beyond all logic. Just a few weeks before the elections, the country’s highest election institution, the CEC, the one that seals the final outcome of the June 23 event, no longer exists! That is, it exists, but it also does not exist. It can meet because a majority of members are present, but it cannot make decisions because there is no majority. The PD and PS-LSI accuse each other. They have managed to draw the largest audience, even housewives who desperately find peace in soap operas. If not a legal, code, or constitutional matter, it seems to have turned simply into a matter of “spite”; you do me wrong, I’ll do you harm; you do me harm, I’ll set you on fire; you set me on fire, I’ll throw mines at you; you have me at gunpoint, I have you at cannon-point... And so, disaster after disaster, fire after fire, the situation has reached a dead end, where all sides stand their ground, the internationals too are divided into camps (even when... ► continues on page 14

DASH REPORT Corrupt government, partisan CEC The report also refers to Shqiptarja.com newspaper regarding press freedom TIRANA Genc KONDI The U.S. Department of State yesterday published the report on human rights in the world during 2012. The Albanian government is criticized for serious problems... ► Page 7

RIKJA, FROM MOTORBIKES TO BIG BROTHER / ELHAIDA DANI TRIUMPH IN ITALY ► Pages 15-19 ■ RIKJA, FROM MOTORBIKES TO BIG BROTHER Dasara, Aulona and Fatma on “A1 Report” ■ ELHAIDA DANI TRIUMPH IN ITALY The stylist, the outfits of Arvizu, Meço, Beccetti and Parietti

The new minister steps on the Mosaic of Tirana ► Page 20

► Page 11 Ndreca is “rewarded,” he gave the mandate to Basha

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► Page 21 At last Serbia recognizes Kosovo as a state

► Page 9 New road on the Mollas-Frashër axis, 7.5 km

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