UNITED OPPOSITION Opposition leaders ensure that the vote will not be compromised in the election RAMA AND META TOGETHER WE WILL GET 80 DEPUTIES, WE WILL EXPAND THE COALITION Edi Rama: The result we expect is 77-80 seats. This result must come out intact from the ballot boxes. Ilir Meta: The result is an undisputed 80 seats. Victory is in our hands and we will not let it slip away Page 3

PS unites north and south live Page 2 IN THE PHOTO: The closing rally in Flag Square in Vlora. (Top) Yesterday’s rally in Shkodra Rama like Noli: From Shkodra to Vlora A spectacular campaign closing by the Socialist Party in two cities IN THE PHOTO: The closing rally in Flag Square in Vlora. (Top) Yesterday’s rally in Shkodra

Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Berisha, or Rama... Rama, or Meta Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of Albanians are called to exercise their constitutional right to vote. To choose. Those votes will contain resentment, hatred, love, militancy, loyalty, selling, buying, pragmatism, idealism, hope, or simply abstention. 66 names at the head of 66 political entities (67 in Vlora and Fier) are on the market tomorrow. In the most expensive market of all, the electoral one. The millions of euros poured into this campaign (and, as always, never to be known) now await the last 24 hours anxiously in order to be “repaid” with votes. But there are also the past four years, what was done and what was not done, that will be weighed. BERISHA-RAMA A night-long battle that began back in the distant year 1991, when according to Berisha he drove Rama out of the PD, while according to the latter, in ten minutes he realized in whose hands the PD had fallen... to be continued on page 11

NUMBER 65 Page 4 KRESHNIK SPAHIU ASKS FOR VOTES IN A MOSQUE Muslim Community responds: We distance ourselves

Joana, a story with the BB5 resident; Dren Abazi: Ready for madness THASH&THEM THASH&THEM Supplement Joana, a story with the BB5 resident Tuna puts the dots on the i: I have the best little bird Dren Abazi: Ready for madness Amarda Toska in the 7th month: I am going through a happy pregnancy Pages 13-17

The second uprising to topple Zog Pages 18-19

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