School Of Magistrates falls
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Same as Top Channel had warned a few days ago, the board at the Schools
of Magistrates voted in favor of the High Council of Justice member,
Neshat Fana, as the new leader of this school.
Fana’s election will be official in the next HCJ meeting, when they will review the proposition of the school board and the nine votes on his favor.
After the second attempt in less than three weeks, the outgoing majority was able to appoint one person who is close to them as leader of the School of Magistrates, by firing the current Director, Marjana Semini, a well renowned figure of this area.
Everything started in a very suspicious way on June 21st, two days before the elections, in complete silence and far from the public’s eye.
On this date the board voted with seven votes in favor and six against for allowing Marjana Semini to lead this school again. But two hours after this proposal, the HCJ held an urgent meeting and returned this proposition without any legal or procedural argument.
After what was considered a scandalous way to appoint new judges in the highest leading justice positions, HCJ took another suspicious decision by appointing Gjin Gjoni as their newest member, by replacing Judge Sokol Binaj, who voted in favor of Mrs.Semini.
In the meeting held this Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the members discussed the HCJ decision and the documentation that follows, and which did not accept the proposition for Mrs. Semini as head of the school. The board members declared that there were inaccurate data.
Although they identified the problems and the suspicious HCJ decisions, the board announced the opening of the voting procedure, exclusing Mrs.Semini from the race and by appointing as candidates for these posts the former Minister of Justice, Enkelejd Alibeaj, and the HCJ member, Neshat Fana.
Although the OSCE, French and United States embassies’ representatives were present, there have been reports of violations during the voting, such as the board’s right for the hidden vote.
A reserved source declared for Top Channel that the voting is open, which caused General Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla and two current professors of the School of Magistrates to leave the room.
When asked about the voting, Mrs.Semini refused to comment while Alibeaj declared that he didn’t know how things had gone, but he only knew that he had not won.
This decision continues the chain of controversial decisions taken in the recent days by the justice system, which sheds more light on the political independence of the Albanian judiciary.
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