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SP and DP strengthen the commission led by Fatmir Xhafaj; SPAK remains out of reporting in the plenary session…
Parliament is entering a new phase of agreements between the Socialist Party and the Democratic Party, while the agreement on changes to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly is being seen as much more than a technical compromise.
After voting by consensus on the resolution on European integration just a few days ago, the SP and the DP have now reached a second important political agreement. But this time, at the center of the changes is a structure directly linked to Fatmir Xhafaj, one of the figures most attacked over the years by Sali Berisha and the Democratic Party.
For years, Berisha accused Xhafaj of being a symbol of the “narco-state,” constantly linking him to the case of his brother, Geron Xhafaj, convicted in Italy for drug trafficking. Opposition protests included chants of “Fatmir Xhafaj, go away,” while the former prime minister publicly called him “the brother of the trafficker” and demanded his removal from the government.
Today, ironically, the Democrats are joining forces with the Socialists to strengthen the commission led by Fatmir Xhafaj.
The new changes give expanded powers to the Committee on Civic Initiatives, Cooperation and Institutional Oversight, which is turning from a peripheral committee into a control node for reporting and institutional monitoring in the Assembly.
According to the final draft, all institutional reports will initially be passed to the relevant committees, but then the final draft resolutions will be filtered and approved by the Committee on Civic Initiatives, which thus assumes a coordinating and supervisory role over constitutional institutions and those established by law.
This is precisely the commission that is being seen as "Xhafaj's commission", at a moment when the former Minister of Justice seems to be gradually returning to the center of the SP's parliamentary architecture.
Initially, Fatmir Xhafaj was sidelined by Edi Rama after the justice reform and internal political tensions. He was then entrusted with the leadership of the Special Anti-Corruption Commission, a structure that was announced with much fanfare, but which practically produced few concrete results.
Now, through changes to the Regulations, Rama appears to be giving Xhafaj another institutional instrument, this time with broader powers in parliamentary oversight and coordination of institutional reports.
One of the strongest elements of the agreement is precisely related to the reporting of institutions to the Assembly. The new draft significantly limits the institutions that report to the plenary session to only those that the Constitution expressly mentions: the Ombudsman, the Prosecutor General, the KLP, the KLGJ, the ILD and the KLSH. SPAK is not included in this list.
This means that the Special Anti-Corruption Structure remains outside of direct reporting to the plenary hall of the Parliament, a development that is being interpreted politically in several ways: as avoiding direct political confrontation with SPAK, but also as a signal of a new institutional restructuring in the relationship between politics and justice.
In political circles, doubts are increasingly growing that the recent agreements between the SP and the DP are not only related to parliamentary functioning or European integration, but could be the prelude to a broader agreement.
In the background remains Edi Rama's idea of constitutional changes, reducing the number of MPs and reviewing the political system. But with the new changes to the Rules of Procedure, another avenue is opening up: the possibility of affecting constitutional institutions and even the justice reform itself.
In parallel, there has long been talk in politics about a possible plan to "review" the justice reform, especially in the part related to the functioning of the new institutions resulting from the 2016 reform.
At the moment, no one is openly talking about a Rama-Berisha agreement. But the fact that within a few days the SP and the DP have found consensus on European integration and now on the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, is feeding the belief that political bargaining may not stop only at the Constitution. /Pamphlet
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