The draft law for opening the files of the former Secret Service aims to clean public figures, not to damage specific persons.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Erion Veliaj, declared that this draft law, planned according to the German model and by respecting the Constitutional Court verdict and that of the Commission of Venice, will help the former political prisoners who want to know what has happened to them and their relatives.
“One political group blackmails the other one, looking for a lustration law with a clear target in their mind, which is that of excluding someone from the public life. This law aims total transparency: secondly, it aims lustration and cleaning of a figure. Every institution must take responsibility. The law says that the Council of Ministers or the Prime Minister should request a verification for the cabinet members or any future ambassador. We cannot deprive someone from the constitutional right of getting employed. But the main thing is that the public has the right to get informed”, Minister Veliaj declared.
Every institution will have the right to make a verification about their employees. There are thousands of files that will have to be digitalized and put in an inventory. The archive should be led by a group of five people who have no political ties, with a special staff and budget.
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