Parliament votes Adriatik Llalla

07/12/2012 00:00

The Albanian Parliament voted the new Prosecutor General, Adriatic Alla,
with 75 votes in favour and the opposition abstaining. Llalla also took
one vote from the opposition, that of MP Tom Doshi, while the
opposition explained the abstaining that the procedure is against the
Constitution.

Llalla’s candiacy was approved yesterday at the Parliamentary Commission of laws, where e hearing session was held for him. Llalla declared as objective of his work the war against corruption among prosecutors, saying that he knew them well, since he comes from that group.

“I’ve been part of the prosecutors’ troop for a long time and I am aware of the cases and situations when some prosecutors, rather than working to fight crime and corruption, join their side and play more the role of the defending lawyer rather than that of the prosecutor. I can guarantee you that these are only a small group, and well known by the prosecutors and citizens, although the wide perception is that these men are part of the prosecutors’ troop”, Llalla declared.

For what is considered the biggest challenge of this institution, the independence of the Prosecution, Llalla has another idea: “We must make our own independence, and this can be achieved only with those who are not implicated in crime and corruption”.

“We will not wait for independency to be given to us by those whom we are supposed to not be depending from, and we must achieve it with our work. If the Prosecutor has not made a pact with the crime, and if the prosecutor takes decisions only based on the law, he is independent from crime and politics, and free to take any decision dictated to him by the law and his inner conviction”, Llalla underlined.

The opposition had no objections for the candidate, but they explained once again why they were abstaining.

“We consider the decree of the Albanian President as against the Constitution, even though we have nothing against the candidacy of Mr. Lalla. For this reason, we will abstain in this voting”, declared the Socialist MP, Sajmir Tahiri.

Llalla will be voted in Parliament, where the General Prosecutor can be elected only with the votes of the majority.

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