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Shkruar nga Ervis Iljazaj
SPAK has brought a new mentality to the relationship between politics and justice. A mentality which has at least removed the fear of investigating people with political power. Today, everyone, except for the Prime Minister of Albania, has visited the offices of this new constitutional body.
SPAK completed five years since its creation and it is definitely time to take stock. A new institutional experiment that came to Albania and completely changed the way of fighting corruption and organized crime. Of course, there can be no black and white balance for the work of this structure. It has had its achievements and failures in these five years. But, if her work is weighed from the positive side. It can be said that SPAK has been a positive phenomenon for Albanian society and its justice, especially in the relationship between politics and justice. Technical efficiency can be discussed, which always has room for improvement, but one thing can be said for sure.
SPAK has brought a new mentality to the relationship between politics and justice. A mentality which has at least removed the fear of investigating people with political power. Today, everyone, except for the Prime Minister of Albania, has visited the offices of this new constitutional body. The barrier that SPAK has demolished, is it exactly a barrier that the government had set in relation to the judiciary, where the latter could not even approach such levels of power.
If there is a real achievement in the Reform of Justice, it is undoubtedly the appearances or parades made by high-level Albanian politicians in front of the doors of SPAK. Views that the Albanian public opinion is not used to in 33 years of pluralism. Almost every day, or every week, there is a politician who shows up at the SPAK offices, and this has now become a common ritual.
In front of these views, there are certainly different reactions and sensations. Found with a new panorama, unaccustomed to before, the feelings they convey and experienced by Albanian citizens are also different. Some are happy, some are sad, some bless SPAK, while others curse it. But ama, these views will have to get used to. Now the investigation of high-level politicians in Albania has become a normality and this is undoubtedly good news.
These scenes, that is, the investigation of high officials by justice, are normal events in the countries and in the democratic world where we aspire to be a part, therefore the societies there have a more measured, or colder reaction in such cases. Because economic, social or cultural life does not depend or stop if important politicians are investigated or punished. Unlike Albanian society, where everything depends on politics, or worse, on some characters who have dictated Albanian political life for decades.
Of course, in democratic countries there is not a frequency of investigations into politics as is happening in Albania, but even this phenomenon has its own explanations. First, because today's political investigations are happening at these levels due to their 33-year absence. Apparently, the moment has come. We have gone from one extreme to the other. From zero investigations to many investigations. And the second, because it is known that Albanian and Balkan politics in general carry more sins on their shoulders than that of democratic European countries and beyond.
And yet, being investigated by justice does not at all mean that you are guilty until you are declared guilty by all levels of justice and with a regular judicial process, as the Constitution of the Republic of Albania defines. Therefore, the moment that has come, that is, the investigation of powerful politicians should not at all make public opinion impatient for justice and encourage justice to retaliate against uncontrolled politics. The moment we are in today requires prudence and calmness from all actors and factors, if we really need to install an independent justice system at the service of Albanian society, as happens in every democratic country.
At this point where Albanian justice has arrived, especially that of SPAK, it can be said that it is the third model of justice in 33 years of pluralism.
In the early 90s, Albania had a justice that was mainly used to fight political opponents. In the 2000s, we had a broad agreement of the political class, where no one was investigated, by either side. This is so true that for 15 or 20 years in a row none of the important politicians have been convicted or investigated. Whereas today, we are dealing with a justice where everyone can be investigated. It does not matter what position they held or currently hold.
And there is no doubt that this model is not liked by the political class in Albania, despite the fact that every now and then some wing takes the credit for the Justice Reform. It is clear that this new model we are dealing with today is an imposition that came from our country's international allies. No one, no politician, would vote for a reform, which they would then investigate themselves. Even if they voted for it with 140 votes in the parliament, they did it under compulsion, or with the hope that they would be able to throw it on the road, but they could not succeed.
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