FLASH
Shkruar nga Ervis Iljazaj
The question that arises in this case is how Albanian politics, which has created Albanian corruption, can fight it? How can the creators of the problem be its solvers?
Albania is probably the country that breaks every record for the anti-corruption reforms it has undertaken in 34 years of transition. We even have an anti-corruption ministry here, which is not found in any country in the world. Perhaps in some African country where corruption is known to be rampant. And yet, in all reliable international reports, Albania is ranked among the countries with high corruption. Since in this government corruption is great, it is no longer an opinion but a fact.
Although Albania has all these reforms against corruption, the only thing that has changed in the fight against it is the work of SPAK. If it were not for the investigations and activity of SPAK, the fight against corruption in Albania would be the same as it has been for 34 years. Many reforms, many laws, many initiatives and no results.
As if all these reforms, agencies or anti-corruption ministries were not enough, the majority has recently proposed the establishment of a special parliamentary commission, which will aim to fight corruption through legal initiatives or various measures, which presents it as an obligation of Albania within the framework of European integration.
The question that arises in this case is how Albanian politics, which has created Albanian corruption, can fight it? How can the creators of the problem be its solvers?
But more importantly, why now? Why exactly now when the fight against him is being carried out more or less efficiently by SPAK? What does it mean that a government after 11 years in power decides one fine day that it has the will to fight corruption, especially at the end of the mandate?
Of course, these are rhetorical questions. Everyone can give the answers themselves.
We have seen the will of Albanian politics to fight corruption in 34 years and we know the results. What we had not seen and are seeing today, is the will of a justice body to fight corruption such as SPAK.
The moment chosen to create a committee that preceded a resolution may have several reasons.
First, because corruption has already become the main problem of the government. In this sense, Edi Rama and the majority wants to cure this problem. The best way, of course, is to turn from the accused to the problem solver. So this government instead of giving account for its corruption is taking the flag of war against him. It looks like political schizophrenia, but the fight against corruption will be Rama's battle horse in the next elections.
Second, the fact that Rama is inviting all political forces to this initiative, whether parliamentary or not, civil society or various experts, requires him to present corruption as a cultural phenomenon and an inevitable condition of Albania. And in this way, to wash his hands of his responsibility. The more singers in this "war", the more his and his government's responsibility is lost.
The third, the biggest doubt as to why this commission is being set up at this moment, is precisely to hinder the advancement of SPAK in investigations against corruption at high levels of politics. High-ranking government officials appear before SPAK every day. Many associates of Rama are today under charges or even behind bars. Although Rama says that it is his will that this is happening and he will take the credit, he knows very well that the real opponent of his power is SPAK. Unwittingly, SPAK has become the main opposition of this government.
And in this battle, in the fight against SPAK, there is a great ally. It is the re-establishment led by Sali Berisha, whose main political battle is precisely in the delegitimization of SPAK. Every day, they did nothing but attack SPAK, even calling it a criminal organization. At this point, Rama and Berisha meet. Because of this policy, a part of the Albanian opposition is losing its main cause, that of the fight against corruption.
For all these reasons, the initiative of the majority to set up the special commission in the fight against corruption looks more like a diabolical initiative than an angelic one. If the Albanian opposition will become part of this farce, if it will "fight" corruption with the man it considers the most corrupt prime minister in the world, it will undoubtedly lose its credibility once and for all. Although he has given signs of cooperation with Rama in the parliament. From the amnesty vote that freed a corrupt person to the Electoral Reform.
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