FLASH
Shkruar nga Andi Bushati
The whole process was predetermined. But if Americans were interested in the end and not the means, the result and not the form, those who were stripped of the main embarrassment, those who knew the outcome, could have given the choice of the imposed winner a more dignified outfit....
Given that the name of the new head of SPAK was placed outside the hall where the four candidates presented their platforms and answered questions from the KLP members, the interest of the session held this Thursday, more than on the winner, was focused on the quality of the process. It must be said without fear that it was a disappointment. A banality of views on what has been done so far, a lack of vision on how to continue tomorrow, an almost blind failure to confront the controversies that the existence of the special prosecution has caused in society.
Even Adanan Xholi, Doloreza Musabelliu, Elvin Gokaj, and Klodian Braho could not surpass the basic level of compilers of personal biographies and chronologies of sentences they had given over the years, without being able to rise to the level of someone who knows how to analyze the work done and what will continue.
All four of them knew how to be enumerative, without being able to be inferential. They demonstrated a memory for listing facts, while not being able to draw conclusions.
In fact, the expectation was completely different. Since it has been in operation for six years and since the major attacks began three years ago, the Special Prosecution Office has caused a wide public debate. Questions have been raised about it for political motivations in the arrest of defendants and for the deliberate disruption of the balance of power between the opposition and the opposition. Suspicions have been cast on it for excessive repressiveness in the measures of arrests and imprisonments, without waiting for final decisions. SPAK has been rejected by the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, for cases such as that of Lapsi or Thoma Geëllç, as well as for taking evidence without court decisions by the Constitutional Court. It has also been accused, as the current head Dumani himself has stated, of excessive influence over the decision-making of the courts.
But all these fundamental problems were only touched upon in the marathon session that lasted nearly six hours. The four competing prosecutors said a few cursory words about not violating the rights of the defendants, justified themselves for the leak of investigative secrets that had not come out of their institution, and denied having accepted pressure from politics. But for the most part of their speeches, there was no thought, no depth, no way out of the technical shell of a simple prosecutor, to rise to the level of a leader who sees the institution as interdependent with other powers in particular and with society as a whole.
What made the whole thing even funnier was the conversation with members of the judiciary government, which in large part resembled the quizzes given to beauty contestants in Miss Albania pageants. Watching people who are supposed to fight crime and corruption at the highest levels answer questions about their strongest or weakest point, whether they gave coffee or cocoa to people who came to their office for intervention, whether their lives as special prosecutors were deprived, or whether they felt threatened, was miserable. Even beginning law students know how to answer tests more complicated than these.
Of course, as expected, in the end, what was known and rumored for a long time happened. With 7 out of 11 possible votes, Klodian Braho was elected for a three-year term as head of SPAK. Even those who might have had doubts were finally convinced by the visit the night before to SPAK by the delegation of senior American diplomats. Their carelessness in entering office number 309, singling out the preferred candidate from the other competitors, as well as the care in publishing the photo of this act on the official website of the embassy, sealed everything.
The entire process was predetermined. But if the Americans were interested in the end and not the means, the result and not the form, those who were stripped of the main embarrassment, those who knew the outcome, could have given the choice of the imposed winner a more dignified outfit. Knowing the winner, they could have turned this session into a deep debate about the shortcomings, problems and future of SPAK. Instead, they presented a basic, superficial, mediocre debate that did nothing but highlight the true level of an institution that implements decisions served from above.
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