President decrees Sali Shehu for HIDAA
27/10/2011 00:00
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The Albanian President, Bamir Topi, decreed the new chairman of the High
Inspectorate of Declaration and Audit of Assets, Sali Shehu.
According to the law, the HIDAA chairman can be elected and dismissed by the Parliament if proposed by the President, with absolute majority.
This means that Mr. Shehu will need 71 votes to be confirmed. Shehu was a Democratic Party MP in the last legislature, and his voting in Parliament is expected with high interest.
HIDAA is considered as a very important institution. According to the law, it is the highest economic and financial audit institution. HIDAA depends only from the Constitution and the laws. If elected, Sali Shehu will be HIDAA chairman for 7 years with the right to be reelected.
The Presidential decrees have always been prejudiced in the past, and it remains unknown if this candidacy, which is in the last months of Topi’s mandate, will serve to improve the relations between the institutions.
But the relations between the President and the majority have deteriorated recently, after the events of January 21st, when the Prime Minister, Sali Berisha accused the President Topi of being an accomplice of a coup. Although the PM has clearly expressed his negative opinions about the President, who used to be his close collaborator, Berisha has preferred to avoid the recent debate spurred between the President and the Speaker.
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