The draft law of the government for the National Bureau will not be
accepted by the opposition. Lulzim Basha said it is unilateral and
provocative.
“It will not be voted because rather than making way for investigating corruption and crime, it shuts down corruption cases and becomes a shield for the crime. This gives the government the control on criminal investigations, which is unacceptable, not similar to any European model or the Constitution of Albania, not even with the Venice recommendations”, Basha said.
Basha was clear when he spoke about what divides the parties about the Bureau: “What divides us is the fact that this institution should be 100% under the control of the Prosecution, as foreseen by the Constitution and the Venice Commission, as we agreed with the US partners”, Basha declared.
Now that the parties have publicly announced their stances about the draft law, its fate is not clear anymore. The Parliamentary procedure says it should pass through the Commission of Laws, but Parliament Speaker Ilir Meta avoided a final answer and left the possibility to discuss the law at the Justice Reform Commission, always agreeing with the opposition.
“We could have done it without the opposition anytime we wanted, but it is difficult to work without it. Almost impossible. Whenever the opposition wants. At the Commission of Laws, at the Commission of Justice Reform, at both of them…”, Meta declared.
PM Rama showed that their stance for the Bureau had not changed since last week, by putting the Bureau law under the jurisdiction of the Justice Reform Commission.
“You will not lose anything to come here and say that you agreed with this draft, but now you changed your mind, and that now you think what the Prime Minister and government used to think, that this is part of the justice reform”, Rama said.
If this happens, it means that the amends for the State Police law, including the Bureau, will be treated as part of the justice package, and its approval will be related to the fate of the justice reform.
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