
Journalist Blendi Fevziu, invited to the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, spoke about SPAK and justice reform.
Fevziu said that SPAK has had some results even though there are question marks about this institution, while regarding the justice reform, he stated that it has thrown justice into chaos and has not produced a better justice system than the one we had before the reform.
Studio conversation:
Ylli Rakipi: Altin Dumani will leave in December of this year. What do you think SPAK's record has been under his leadership?
Blendi Fevziu: We need to separate two things, justice and SPAK. Dumani turned SPAK into a more efficient and punitive structure than it was before. But I'm not sure how it will continue in the next three years. Do I have any objections to Dumani? I have as many as you want, but I have listed them. But Dumani is one of the people who left his mark with SPAK. He demanded the arrest of Berisha, which he could not achieve and with whom I do not agree. He is the man who arrested Meta, the way the arrest was made I do not agree with. He arrested Erion Velina. If you ask me and I speak from the position of a person who has experience, I would claim that these people were prosecuted in a free state, their legal violation was proven, and then they went to prison. However, Dumani said a few minutes ago that only 9.7% of SPAK cases have gone to detention, the rest are prosecuted in a free state. I think that some of these arrests were made in a spectacular way to create the impression that people who were not punished before were being punished. Tell me, why did Meta have to be arrested in the middle of the road? The ugliest catwalk. What country is there that drags its own President?
I heard the press conference of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who said I was in prison and it was for corruption, and Trump even approached the prison and said he was joking. He was in prison, served his sentence and was re-elected. In the world, the fact that you can go to prison is a kind of re-education. If people vote for you, you can be elected. Whereas in Albania, punishment is not perceived as serving the sentence for the crime you committed, but is only perceived if you were arrested and showed violence.
Ylli Rakipi: We have noticed that there are rare cases when the court overturns SPAK.
Blendi Fevziu: This is the biggest flaw in the justice reforms. I call SPAK a success story to some extent.
Ylli Rakipi: I have that idea too. But here we go.
Blendi Fevziu: I consider that there is a major problem with SPAK. SPAK files charges and defends charges, it does not convict anyone. SPAK files charges, the court makes the sentence. The problem is that the court, and here I saw a statement by Dumani that I was shocked by, who says of course the court will approve our things.. But if judges are evaluated and controlled by SPAK in the sense of professional control, then you do not have independent justice. I understand the special prosecution, it can be there, but why should there be a special court? That is, you have a special prosecution, but the trial can be in the normal court. In which country in the world is there a special court? There is no need for it. There can be a special prosecution since corruption is a problem. What does a special court mean? Of the 45th?
Today, citizens go to court, why not go to this when corruption is being punished? Now is the time to say one thing, despite the enthusiasm of the justice reform, it produced a relatively successful story like SPAK and produced total chaos on the other side, which today Albania is suffering from. Today, the Supreme Court has 30 thousand cases, the courts of appeal have 1/3 of the number it should have. One judge, the deceased who lost his life, had 1800 cases. Why are they supermen? So we have produced chaos, for which no one comes forward and no one is responsible. America has insisted on SPAK, but what right did the reform burn the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, leaving the country without a CC?
Ylli Rakipi: Now for the reform, 99.7% is the rest of the justice system, because only 0.3% is SPAK, the rest seems to be a failed reform.
Blendi Fevziu: I don't know how to say failed, but I say it's chaos, we have to say, today court cases are longer, people's suffering is longer, justice today is not better. How do you measure it? We have had a Constitutional Court, with people with defects but who have made 37 decisions against a government, when the government was strong. They overturned one of the fundamental agreements. Why is today's better?
This majority should have the courage to admit that we have a product that has yielded some results, SPAK, with all the question marks, but we have produced total chaos on the other side. We started out for good but it turned out badly for us. It is a failure.
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