PD rejects the commission The majority offered the right of veto and co-chairmanship The majority offered the right of veto and co-chairmanship TERRITORIAL DIVISION WHAT THE NEW DRAFT PROVIDES The government signs agreements with the US, Sweden, Switzerland and UNDP for assistance with the reform. The opposition seeks control over the institutions that oversee television stations and monitor politicians’ assets ▶ ON PAGES 2-3

Political satire Crime without pause, it strikes and doesn’t stop, terrorizing all of Albania... BY ARBEN DUKA Political quarrel gives courage to crime... Crime without pause, it strikes and doesn’t stop, terrorizing all of Albania... Continues on page 20 together with the column “VIPs and Ripa”

Commentary BY AFRIM KRASNIQI Politics that still kills Transition-era Albania has created events for which no one feels proud, and which clearly divide society, politics and the behavior of state institutions toward them. It is not only the debate over the date of the crime, the debate over the white nights, the debate over political figures from the former communist apparatus. These are new events, with major political charges, created by politics, misused by it and which in every case show the ability of politics to create, feed and keep its great divisive, conflictual and anti-value potential standing. On 2 April 1991 the departing regime executed four innocent opposition citizens in Shkodër... ▶ continues on page 17

BAMIR TOPI Dinner with Edi Rama: “We can cooperate” ▶ PAGE 5

Scandal ▶ PAGE 6

Dossier Document 1943/ Here are the communists’ “CVs” ▶ PAGE 16

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Coast Concession on Dhërmi beach annulled ▶ PAGE 7

Decision Hervin Çuli appointed director of the National Theatre ▶ PAGE 19

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