
At a time when several candidates are expected to compete for the position of Prosecutor General, the High Prosecutorial Council was not ready to open the competition.
Although it had been scheduled on the agenda to discuss and approve the opening of procedures, the meeting was postponed with the agreement of all members. As TCH sources indicate, members have requested more time to discuss the procedures that will be followed with the publication of the call for competition, a request that was also approved by the internationals present in the room.
According to the law, within 30 days of the opening of the competition, candidates submit their CVs and express interest to the KLP, and then the government of the prosecutor's office conducts checks. But members are unclear about how they will conduct the asset and image checks of the candidates when the vetting process ended its mandate in June and while the 2026 changes to the status law have created an imbalance.
For these dilemmas, whether or not the competition regulations should be changed, the members have deemed it necessary to study the legal acts, to compare how much the legal circumstances have changed since the time when, seven years ago, Olsian Çela competed and was elected Prosecutor General, the control of the contenders was carried out according to the revaluation law.
Olsian Çela is the first prosecutor to receive a 7-year mandate as head of the prosecution, according to the justice reform laws. He was previously the prosecutor of the Serious Crimes Office, which was closed to make way in 2019 for the Special Prosecution Service, or SPAK.
Sources told journalist Anila Hoxha that the members will discuss the issue again this Thursday. Meanwhile, unofficially, it is known that the names discussed so far, who are expected to show ambitions for Prosecutor General, are prosecutor Rovena Zoto, prosecutor in the capital, Ylli Pjetërnikaj, prosecutor in the capital and professor at the School of Magistrates, and Pranvera Pustina, director of Foreign Jurisdictional Relations at the General Prosecutor's Office./ TCH
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