The Albanian Minister of Social Welfare, Erjon Veliaj, declared that the
government draft is ready for opening the communist files.
The process will be led by the Authority of Public Information and of Security Data, which will be composed by five members and will be a special structure of the Parliament.
Albania will follow the German model. The draft takes in consideration the Constitutional Court decisions and respects the Venice Commission principles.
“The draft law has a clear action plan for opening files since November 29th 1944, when Albania was liberated, and until March 21st 1991, when the first pluralist elections were held”, Veliaj declared.
The government is planning this draft law in a time when the civil society, supported by the opposition MPs, have filed another request in Parliament.
“Whoever has interest to open the files, should support a procedure and a law that takes in consideration the decisions of the Constitutional Court, laws for preserving the personal data and that offer a process with transparency”, Veliaj declared.
The government says through this draft that there will be no collective punishments, which is declared as anti-constitutional by the Court. Albania is the last one in this process from the Eastern countries, and this is not the first effort that tries to give an end to this process that has been used mostly as blackmail against opponents.
“We have no complexes for being with the left center. We are determined to make a detachment from the past through this act of transparency”, Veliaj declared.
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