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By Ervin Lisaku TIRANA, April 13 – Two months ahead of the upcoming general elections, the ruling Socialist Party-led government has made a new effort to reactivate a major highway project linking Tirana to the undeveloped Dibra region and neighboring Macedonia after the failure of concession negotiations with a Chinese company. Gjoka Konstruksion, an Albanian-owned company has been awarded a 10 percent bonus for an unsolicited bid, placing it at an advantage when an international tender is held, likely later this year after the June 18 general elections whose run-up has been accompanied by a political deadlock with the main…