PS launches the campaign

EDI RAMA: WE DO NOT WANT TO WIN ON 30 JUNE, BUT THE CITIZENRY The prime minister presented the candidates for mayors in the country’s 61 municipalities. Letter to democrats: “Basha abandoned you, fear of justice and defeat.” The head of the PD: “The response will come from today’s protest” PAGES 2-4 RAMA AHEAD

EDITORIAL

BY Carlo Bollino What Rama risks (and Basha too) from elections without competition Even knowing that the PD and the LSI will not take part in the local elections of 30 June, the Socialist Party must still fight to win them. What looks like a paradox is, in fact, the trap hidden behind these uncontested elections, which Edi Rama is forced to face. continues on page 5

Arta Marku’s list of officers includes brothers, nephews and wives of senior officials

The names of the 27 winners of the competition for judicial police officers. The chief prosecutor made the “Vetting” adviser Arben Jorgaqi an officer, and Ramadan Troci was dismissed in Vlorë BY Elton Qyno INVESTIGATIVE DESK PAGE 9

THE FILE IS REVEALED

HOW THE DNA THAT IDENTIFIED THE FORMER POLICEMAN’S KILLER WAS FOUND A saliva sample taken from the water bottle seized in the car helped catch Cukali PAGE 8

BASHA: YOU ARE DEFEATED, TODAY IN THE SQUARE

KORÇË COUNTY

Earthquake: 100 houses damaged, 90 residents spend the night in tents The epicenter of the 5.3-magnitude earthquake was in the village of Floq, in Kolonjë. Çako: Army equipment and tents are at disposal; those affected will be compensated PAGE 24

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOK

Bamir Topi: Berisha’s insulting phone call to Kreshnik Spahiu Former president Bamir Topi recounts Berisha’s outburst on the phone at Spahiu in the KLD and the comic moments when he wanted to get on a bicycle PAGE 6

Ismail Lulani, the painter and human being with a poet’s soul

BY Xhanid Bushati

Blerta Xhomo, the grace of a spatula

BY Luan Rama

“RILINDASI”

GAZMEND ÇITAKU: SERBS, MACEDONIANS AND MONTENEGRINS HIDE AND DENY ILLYRIAN TRACES BY DHURATA HAMZAI PAGES 13-20 RILINDASI Gazmend Çitaku, the encyclopedic magazine of the most, amid a thousand [?] and the monologues of traces [?]

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Rezart Kapetani, the virtuoso violinist in Murcia, Spain PAGE 10

New GJP officers

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