Ina Rama, Nishani consults parties

The Presidency press release says that the meetings aim to identify the best values that the next Prosecutor should represent, as an important institution in the justice system.

The first meeting was at 10:00 with the head of the Democratic Parliamentary Group, Astrit Patozi.

Patozi declared that the new Prosecutor should have moral and professional integrity, and he should have experience on the justice system.

“The new prosecutor must guarantee to fulfil his duties successfully and without implications with the past”, Patozi declared.

Then Nishani met the Socialist Parliamentary Group leader, Gramoz Ruci, in a meeting that lasted 45 minutes.

After the meeting, Ruci declared that the mandate of the incumbent Prosecutor, Mrs. Ina Rama, ends on 23 May 2013.

“We have consulted constitutionalists and international experts, and the result is that the mandate of the General Prosecutor doesn’t end on November”, Ruci declared.

In the afternoon Nishani met with Lefter Koka from the Socialist Movement for Integration, then with Fatmir Mediu from the Republican Party; Vangjel Dule from the United for Human Rights Party and Shpetim Idrizi from the Party for Justice, Integrity and Unity.

Different from the other parties, that gave no comments, Vangjel dule from UHRP expressed their indiference, saying that it didn’t matter for them if Ina Rama’s mandate ended on November 2012 or May 2013, as long as it’s before the electins, which are often surrounded by tensions. 

The New Democratic Spirit Party, which is represented in Parliament by Gazmend Oketa, was not invited again. It remains to be seen the position of the opposition parties about this issue, while the majority has clearly expressed it stance about Ina Rama’s mandate.

The NDS declared that the mandate of Ina Rama ends in May 2013, and that the majority is trying to take under their control the last remaining independent institution in Albania.

There were speculations that the President would also meet the Prime Minister Sali Berisha, but it remained unconfirmed.

Rama: Ina Rama’s mandate ends in 2013

After meeting the experts for the energy situation in the country, the Socialist leader, Edi Rama, mentioned the General Prosecutor issue.

“The Socialist Party met with the Albanian President to remind him that he is not a Berisha’s minister anymore. The answer that we received is clear. Our stance, same as that of the international partners, is that the Prosecutor cannot be discharged before 23 May 2013. This would destroy the institutional order in the country”, Rama declared, adding that the Prime Minister aims to grab the last independent institution in teh country so that he can manipulate the elections in the next year.

Rama mentioned the issue of the Fier Councilors, the voting of the laws that are required for the candidate status, for which the opposition’s vote is needed.

The opposition leader read the court’s verdict for the Fier court, which according to him finds Berisha’s proposition for a confidentiality motion as unconstitutional.

Rama accused Berisha of not being interested on Albania’s integration, but the power, and that Fier is being used to cover the failure with the EU candidate status.

As regards the energy situation, SP declared that the entire system is in collapse.

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