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The second problem that SPAK has is their 9-year mandate that is ending soon and the request they have to repeat this mandate.
Altin Dumani's recent visit as SPAK chairman to the US has sparked endless conspiracy fantasy scenarios about the importance of the visit or the instructions he received from the US. As usually happens in our madhouse in the evening, a "journalist" appears on every screen who has his own sources and tells you in detail what orders Altin Dumani has received and what the Americans have asked him for. From screen to screen, these instructions change according to the troubles the television owner has with American justice or the Albanian government. This is a bigger trouble for Altin Dumani than the visit itself.
The truth is that SPAK's visits to the US are among the most frequent since it was created as an institution, not only because of the political and financial support it has from the US, but also because of the fact that the US has supported Justice Reform.
So it is normal that the consultation process with the US continues, especially since it is now a process of renewal for both the head of the BKH and the head of SPAK. And this is good news. The idea that the US would no longer be interested in the Justice Reform and its consequences risked turning every achievement and every mistake made so far into a standard of justice. By following the process, things become clearer.
What are SPAK's problems today that the US should provide its assistance to?
First, the election of the new head of SPAK and BKH. In turn, the head of BKH should be elected by SPAK and it is good to be on the same wavelength with the new head of SPAK, so that duality is not created. Within SPAK itself there are so many divisions and groupings, that we are no longer dealing with a compact institution, but with a bunch of clans that seem to have divided both the political and professional protagonism. At this point, Altin Dumani's role, at least, has not been unifying but divisive.
So the new SPAK leader must correct this group spirit and the battle of statistics by trampling on every universal principle of human rights. So the immediate role of the US is to support a BKH leader who is in sync with the prosecutor who has the most chance of being the new SPAK leader after Dumani.
The second problem that SPAK has is their 9-year mandate that is ending soon and the request they have to repeat this mandate.
Edi Rama's personal relations with SPAK are unclear, but political relations are formally strained, due to SPAK's involvement in several investigative matters that are not their competence — such as defining the scope of national security or setting government priorities in various fields such as medicine or education — where SPAK has intervened by blocking or judging political decisions of the government and not corruption issues.
So SPAK needs the continued support of the Biden administration to repeat the request that Democrats also had: that prosecutors' mandates be extended. Their mandate ends in 2028, but the changes need to be made during 2026-2027 to allow time for the vetting of young people.
This is a good opportunity for Edi Rama to bargain with Washington, but also a moment of bargaining with some prosecutors who have created political problems for him with their protagonism.
So it is unclear whether Rama is interested in a letter of commendation from a State Department official, or the dismissal of prosecutors who have caused him headaches. If he makes concessions only for the former SPAK leaders, it is a kind of compromise that could compromise the non-public relationship between them.
This process requires legal changes that will also require the votes of Berisha's opposition, which could be an opportunity to re-divide the DP in relation to justice from Washington and a new blow to them.
The third problem is the renewal of US public positions in favor of SPAK at every moment and step of their work.
This tradition has been interrupted with the arrival of the new administration.
I do not believe that the US ambassador's participation in the election of the new head of SPAK will be repeated, and I do not believe that the supportive statements for every debate between SPAK and politics have a chance of being repeated again.
Realistically, this does not harm the work of SPAK or justice as a whole, on the contrary, it helps it more, as the "pro bono" support of every action of SPAK has really brought about deep deformations in the standards of the new justice system and a low quality of prosecutors, recruited in some cases like Olsi Dado and outside the legal criteria, who do not even deserve to be first-instance district prosecutors.
For this reason, new prosecutors who will be recruited must also undergo vetting and professional tests, so that this current quality is not repeated.
If Altin Dumani has received answers to these three important issues, he has done a lot of work, leaving as head of SPAK and thanking them for their cooperation. His successor will be calmer than the US ambassador in Tirana, and I hope more professional in dealing with political figures, so that those vulgar courtroom performances are not repeated where prosecutors are insulted like thugs with the defendants, and turn the investigation process into a personal battle.
So don't dream that in Duman's meetings with DASH, specific names of politicians or files are discussed. The agenda they had between them is discussed and whether it will continue or not. This agenda contains these issues that I cited above, which are inevitable from the discussion. Otherwise, then it falls to him to have gone to a wedding and also went on a tour of Washington.
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