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The head of SPAK does not like critical voices!
The head of SPAK, Altin Dumani, continues to stand by the claim that the media is between politics and crime, as entities that are exerting pressure on the prosecution.
He made this statement in the Laws Committee a few days ago, where there were many reactions. But today in the Assembly hall, Dumani, while listing the threats, mentioned the media again.
" SPAK continues to be under external pressure from political, media and organized crime actors that endanger the institutional integrity and that of prosecutors. This concern requires a coordinated institutional response to protect the constitutional independence of SPAK ," stressed Dumani.
But in trying to identify the real threats to SPAK's independence, Mr. Dumani risks slipping into another danger: confusing criticism with attack. Because when an institution like SPAK decides to mention the media in the same row as organized crime and political pressure, the idea is created that even legitimate criticism, even investigative reporting, is seen as a threat.
There is no serious evidence that the media in Albania is exerting pressure on SPAK. What exists is an increase in public interest in its decisions, in the protracted investigations in some sensitive files, in its often unclear positions on issues of national interest. This is not pressure, it is public responsibility.
Even the way SPAK acted towards journalist Elton Qyno is the clearest example of what happens when an institution seeks to close information channels, instead of clarifying them. The seizure of the work equipment of an investigative journalist, without minimal legal guarantees, was later overturned by the Constitutional Court itself. And rightly so.
Why didn't Dumani talk about cases where the media is used for SPAK's interests? The pamphlet denounced a few days ago how prosecutor Klodian Braho uses journalists close to him to create smokescreens regarding the race for the head of SPAK. So if it weren't for the media, SPAK would have turned into a gendarme today. The media is what keeps not only SPAK on track, but the government, the police, etc.
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