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As the Investigative Commissions continue to be the 'bone of contention' between the majority of the opposition, where one side does not accept their establishment, while the other holds hostage the normal development of the Assembly's work, on Monday the discussion in the parliamentary commissions on the amendment of the law begins.
The first to discuss it is the Laws Committee, where 3 initiatives that have been filed in the span of 1 year will be joined: The last one of the Socialist Party, which was presented by MP Ermonela Felaj at the height of the debate on investigative commissions, on 30 November, while the other two drafts were proposed about 1 year ago by opposition MPs Jorida Tabaku and Edmond Spaho.
But what do the 3 proposals contain and how does the law on investigative commissions change?
The Socialist Party demands a clear definition of the object of the investigative commissions. According to the draft, the Commission is set up for a specific, specific issue, which are only those related to the aspect of control and implementation of the law and that promote its regulation.
The SP also includes in the draft the conduct of commission meetings behind closed doors, when a witness is called, in cases where the personal life of witnesses is involved, when their lives are at risk or when references are made related to business/commercial secrets or state secrets , or when it may harm social morals or may lead to the dissemination of data that should be kept secret in the interest of the state if such a thing is required by the competent body."
The witnesses are precisely the point that separates the proposal of the SP from the proposal of Jorida Tabaku, who, in the draft submitted to the Assembly 1 year ago, requests that the closed-door meeting of the commission be held only in cases where the witness was taken earlier in questions from the prosecution, as a person who has knowledge of a criminal offense, as a person under investigation or as a defendant.
In its 12-point draft submitted to the Assembly on December 9, 2023, Tabaku also demands equal representation in the Investigative Commissions between the majority and the opposition, seeking to avoid by law the blocking that the SP can do with the force of work cards of the commission, unlike the current Law of Investigative Commissions, which determines that the majority is the one that has the majority of members with 1 more.
While Edmond Spaho goes even further, in the 2-point amendment proposed by him on March 8, 2023.
It requires that the majority of the members of the investigative commission be from the political force that requests the establishment of the commission, while it foresees the reduction of the number of deputies who have the right to request the establishment of an investigative commission from 35 deputies that is currently to 15 deputies, a proposal which would also require constitutional changes.
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