TAHIRI LEAVES, A COMPROMISE FOR THE PRE-ELECTION NEGOTIATIONS TAHIRI LEAVES, A COMPROMISE FOR THE PRE-ELECTION NEGOTIATIONS The dismissal of the Minister of the Interior is linked to the Rama-Meta agreement and the effort to calm the opposition. Other changes in the cabinet are expected, but there will be no technical government. Several minister-coordinators who will lead the campaign will be removed. Basha reacts: Our victory, but we will not withdraw without a technical government PAGES 2-4

Editorial BY Carlo Bollino The idea of dismissing the ministers who have coordinator duties in the Socialist Party campaign, three months before the elections, has left everyone speechless, above all the ministers, none of whom had been informed in advance by Prime Minister Edi Rama about his plan. The only one with whom Rama had spoken about this idea was Saimir Tahiri, who was asked last night to resign as Minister of the Interior in order to continue in the role of coordinator of the socialist campaign in Tirana. continues on page 5

Analysis BY Mero Baze Prime Minister Edi Rama is preparing to form a Socialist technical government through a series of drastic changes, which he is expected to make public on Monday. The changes aim to relieve the ministers who will lead the main districts in the election campaign and replace them with more technical figures within the Socialist Party. continues on page 5

Decision: judges and prosecutors to earn 4,000 USD a month without passing the review P 7

YLVI BEQJA: HOW SHULLAZ’S FRIEND THREATENED ME OVER MY TESTIMONY “If you do not withdraw your testimony, we will expose the merchants of lies in the media” P 9

After the wins, the teams from the northeast and the “Bulls” take the lead P 22

UFOs on Mount Tomorr, Security investigations in 1960 The mystery of the crash of the modern MIG aircraft in the Skrapar region P 20-21

PAGES 13-21 BY Pjetër Logoreci DR. FEDERIK SHIROKA, WHEN THE DICTATORSHIP KILLED YOU AT NIGHT AND CRIED FOR YOU BY DAY The sad story of the surgeon with golden hands, whom the communist regime used and blackmailed with prison THE MEDIEVAL ARBËRIA OF MILAN SHUFLAJ BY Dorian Koçi RILINDASI