The opposition leader, Lulzim Basha, has met for more than eight hours
with the Parliament Speaker, Ilir Meta, and the US and EU ambassadors.
PM Edi Rama was part of the negotiations, but not present in the
meeting.
The agreement was reached after difficult negotiations about the way how the Parliament will appoint ten members, five at the Supreme Council of Courts and five at the Supreme Council of Prosecutions.
They will be elected by the Parliament, but will first undergo a vetting by the International Monitoring Operation.
This is a new criterion that was included in the agreement, because the first draft was for the IMO to vote only the members of the Commission that would make the vetting of others.
The vetted members – now without limits from the Chamber of Notaries or the Chamber of Advocates, as it used to – will go to the Commission made of five members, three from the majority and two from the opposition.
In this Commission they will be elected based on the recommendations of the IMO, and a consensual list will be created, without votes. This is the variant that was given to Top Channel by the Democratic Party and that has been reached in this agreement.
However, this variant is expected to be confirmed officially, because there may be a meeting of the Special Commission for the Justice Reform.
After reaching consensus with this list, at the 5-member commission (3+2), this list will be snet in Parliament where it will be voted with 2/3rd of the votes. If the list will not be approved, the members will be elected by lots.
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