
Journalists Klodiana Lala and Andi Bushati clashed over the mandate of SPAK prosecutors.
Lala stated that the nine-year mandate of prosecutors should be turned into a lifetime mandate, because prosecutors fight very dangerous criminal gangs and should not end up after nine years in district prosecutor's offices or on the streets, while adding that they are the most qualified prosecutors for investigations of this nature.
Meanwhile, analyst Andi Bushati said that the Constitution should not be amended in any way to extend the mandate of prosecutors.
The Debate in “The Unexposed”
Klodiana Lala: The mandate is 9 years, the discussion is will it cease to function after 9 years? I am of the opinion that given the history of developed countries, the US has it with eternal status, and Britain too. Only by guaranteeing independence can the prosecutor and judge dare to touch the untouchables. If the history of mandates remains limited and the discussion can be, somewhere between the lines the Minister of Justice said that the functioning of SPAK is only 9 years and it seemed as if he linked the mandate of the prosecutors to the end and duration of the end of SPAK. I think that SPAK prosecutors should definitely have eternal status with some assessments and criteria.
Ylli Rakipi: We assume that these are political problems, but these have hit the most dangerous gangs and hired killers who are in prison. How can you take this status away from the prosecutor? Here is the problem.
Andi Bushati: Why didn't those Serious Crimes officers who were brought out by vetting on the streets punish criminals?
Ylli Rakipi: Yes, that's wrong.
Klodiana Lala: It's a scandal, we've raised our voices.
Andi Bushati: This is justice reform, it brought people out into the streets… Why should these people be made an exception? For the chaos they brought Albania into? For that we consider them privileged?
Klodiana Lala: It's not related to privileges.
Andi Bushati: They should be on appeal.
Andi Tela: Institutions need to be created, not individuals and heroes.
Klodiana Lala: Who said heroes?
Andi Tela: They have set it for 9 years.
Klodiana Lala: The prosecutor must have a permanent status. A prosecutor who goes to SPAK has met certain criteria, now to investigate organized crime, it is an art in itself, not all prosecutors can have the capacity and adapt to investigate organized crime. Are there any among them who should not be there? Yes, but there are mechanisms for this. We have prosecutors in SPAK who have removed their children from the University, one of the children of a prosecutor was in Germany, he was protected by the German authorities, due to the danger he faced from organized crime. In the end, he returned to Albania altogether, his work was interrupted in a way. Therefore, you have to guarantee his independence. In SPAK, you are a protected prosecutor.
Andi Bushati: So Albanians should pay, for some criminals who in cold blood, let the personal data of 900 thousand citizens be stolen by the SP, the prosecutor who closed the case and give status to these people who have freely let Albanians be stolen? Okay. Let's give it to them... One closes a file, the other the incinerator, these are the ones. Do you know how this is, do you know how many criminals there are who hide their children because they are worried that another criminal will kill them?
Klodiana Lala: You can't compare this.
Andi Bushati: They have behaved like criminals in this institution. If I am a journalist who has filed five complaints, but for five other issues, I have turned a blind eye or taken money... They have closed files, they serve the government. They closed the patronage players, another one is the one who lied about the Elbasan incident... Edi Rama is the dictator and SPAK is the executioner who tightens the belt.
Klodiana Lala: What can we say, there is no hope? We must denounce.
Andi Bushati: This is called a useful idiot, someone who hopes in vain where there is no hope. This is not an insult.
Klodiana Lala: I'm giving you arguments. I can't convince myself. The fact that Rama has made power a criminal...
Andi Bushat: Even with the help of SPAK, the Supreme Court, Irena Gjoka, the Court of Appeals, with the help of everyone. Should Albania change the Constitution again for these scoundrels? Let them go home when their mandate is over because they've ruined it. Are they, as Yuri Kim says, "heroes"? Agreed! Is the Constitution 9 years old, this is not even discussed anymore, for these scoundrels to change the Constitution? To make them eternal, eeee? Then you get into the absurdity...
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