Nikollë Lesi
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Nikollë Lesi is the owner and editor of the newspaper Koha Jonë and a former Member of the Albanian Parliament.
Koha Jonë was Albania's first private newspaper, and was formed by Nikollë Lesi and Aleksandër Frangaj. They privatized the newspaper of the Committee of the Party of Labour of Lezha in 1992.[1]
In May 2004 he was fined 2 million lekë (10,000 pounds sterling) for the defamation of the Prime Minister Fatos Nano and two of his employees, after an article accused them of corruption.[2] As leader of the Christian Democratic Party he complained of undue pressure on his party's candidates in the 2005 election campaign, claiming: "They are even firing our candidates from their jobs prior to the election."[3] In May 2006 he proposed the so-called 'Lesi amendment' to exclude the owners of television companies from public tenders. The law was passed, however it was returned to the Assembly by the President in May 2007 on the grounds that it conflicted with Article 7 of the Albanian constitution. After losing the leadership of the Christian Democratic Party of Albania to Nard Ndoka he left that party and announced, in November 2007, that he was setting up a new Party: the Albanian Christian Democratic Movement.
References
- ↑ "mediaonline.ba". mediaonline.ba. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
- ↑ Europe and Central Asia: Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns in the Region January - June 2004 | Amnesty International Archived October 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Albania Election Campaign Turns Nasty". Iwpr.net. 2005-08-02. Retrieved 2012-07-26.