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Unlike the draft decision that is expected to be approved, Shalsi said that the management of the subcommittee cannot be bipartisan, with co-chairmen from the opposition and the majority.
Deputies of the opposition and the majority welcomed with reservations an initiative initiated by the chairman of the Economy and Finance Commission, Eduard Shalsi, for the establishment of a parliamentary structure to control the work of the Supreme State Audit Office.
The initiative, which is expected to be voted on in the plenary session, envisages the establishment of the sub-committee "On Auditing the Public Sector" whose main field of work is "reporting of the Public Sector Audit to the Assembly", an independent constitutional institution and the highest institution of control economic and financial.
Speaking on Tuesday at the start of the meeting scheduled for the annual report of the head of the HCLA, Shalsi said that the time had come "to build a new relationship between the Assembly and the HCLA".
Meanwhile, unlike the draft decision that is expected to be approved, Shalsi said that the direction of the subcommittee cannot be bipartisan, with co-chairmen from the opposition and the majority.
"It will not be a subcommittee that will operate on a bipartisan basis. Such is the experience of many countries, which our partners also suggest to us", he announced, reports "BIRN".
The initiative was met with reservations and accusations of attempts to violate the independence of this institution by some members of the commission.
DP MP Edmond Spaho called it "a typical political move".
"Here, the problem is not to create subcommittees if we accept the reports of the KLSH," he said.
While Jorida Tabaku criticized Shalsi for using a double standard towards independent institutions in their reports to the commission.
"What do you mean by a special report?" she asked Shalsi, hinting that this report meant that "I like a certain institution and let's make a resolution together, and I don't like a certain institution and let's make a financial audit of this institution?"
Calling it an "attack on independent institutions", she accused Shalsi of violating the integrity of the commission by asking private auditors to ask questions about the head of the SSC.
"We all have uncertainties and questions towards KLSH, but I have never received reports to take to independent auditors to see the work of auditors who are in conflict of interest" - she said, while assessing that the spirit created with KLSH's annual reporting - to indicate an attempt to attack an independent institution.
Even the socialist deputy, Frrok Gjini, raised questions about the way the chairman of the commission was handling the KLSH report.
"KLSH should be invulnerable and independent, let's not treat it with 2 standards", he addressed Shalsi, "BIRN" reports.
Shalsi tried to fill his mind that the subcommittee was suggested by international organizations that had assisted the Assembly in improving good parliamentary practices, while denying the accusations that this initiative was an attempt to "capture" the KLSH.
The head of the SSC, Arben Shehu, said that he welcomed initiatives and discussions that would serve the implementation of the recommendations left by the audit reports of this institution.
A list of 60 written questions addressed to him failed to be answered at Tuesday's hearing, adjourning for a marathon hearing on Wednesday.
In the last report submitted to the Assembly on the management of public finances by the government, the KLSH has ascertained an economic damage of 72.3 billion ALL due to mismanagement and legal violations committed by the state and local administration during 2023.
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