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The President of the National Integration Council, Jorida Tabaku, during a meeting held in the Integration Council today, where SPAK head Altin Dumani was also present, said that the reports show that Albania is still dragging its feet, not showing real progress as it belongs to corruption.
She also said that she would have liked SPAK to have done investigations faster, to have more arrests, not to have postponed hearings and shortened trials.
For the democratic deputy Tabaku, in the last five years the country has fallen to the level of 35 and 36 points, while she added that corruption has lowered its feet from the budget funds to those of IPARD.
"In the last two years, it is the fourth time that this Council meets to discuss corruption as a challenge not only for the Integration process, but as a challenge for the economy, migration, business and the future. Report after report show that Albania is dragging its feet in the years last where although this assembly has approved a reform in justice that is waved like a flag left and right, it remains the last reform approved in the parliament for the integration process in the distant year 2017. In the last five years, Albania is at the level of 35 and 36 points , showing no real progress because today corruption is being done by laws and has lowered its feet from the budget funds to those of IPARD. In April, the five main chambers of commerce in Albania addressed a joint statement to the government, where they emphasized the need for fight corruption and bribery in the administration, as well as injustices in public tenders. Today, concessions and public tenders, public tenders, public assets are given with unsolicited offers, without competition in violation of the SAA, which is the primary interest of the KKIE.
Today, Transparency International says that corruption is done with laws in the assembly and integrity plans have no value, nor strategies when at the end of the day certain companies receive services and benefits with special laws in the budget, starting with the VAT law in the year distant 2015 following the gambling law which, ironically, is being re-discussed for the third time today in Parliament. Today we have the report of two very important institutions, SPAK and the Ministry of Justice as coordinator for the fight against corruption.
I take the opportunity here to congratulate the Special Prosecutor's Office (SPAK) for the work done in the investigation and arrest of high officials for acts of corruption, starting with the concession contracts and continuing with the exercise of their activity and function at the local level. Each of us would probably have liked that the SPAK had done investigations faster, had more arrests, not had postponed hearings and shortened trials, but today it is up to us to appreciate the work of the SPAK for the courage shown.
And for politics, it is a good lesson not to become the master of corruption or to protect it, as has been done until today unfortunately. Nor do we apply pressure when we don't like the result and when we don't like the decisions. Politics must be silent when justice speaks! Therefore Mr. Dumani, Mrs. Lose those who until yesterday attacked the independent institutions of justice and SPAK, today the Deputy Ministers are using them as statistics. Arrested and fugitive prime ministers. I believe that everyone has understood that we must be patient! For this reason, I encourage all the members of this council to rush for the remaining changes in the justice reform after almost 7 years from the first package, keeping in mind two principles: not to destroy the infrastructure of the system and vetting for all levels wherever they come from for peacemakers in institutions and inclusiveness.
If today politics is silent on the decisions of SPAK, it is because it is one of the institutions that was created with the comprehensive support of all political wings and with the insistence of the Democratic Party, unlike the other 6 laws of justice which were one-sided. In the last report of the General Prosecutor's Office to the Assembly, it is stated that 65% of criminal prosecutions for corruption have been dismissed. This fact shows that there are great challenges in justice and in punishing corrupt actors.
Before I give the floor to the representatives who have come to report, I wanted to share a concern of the last few days and join the call of Mrs. Gjonaj to condemn these attacks and threats against prosecutors and judges, at the same time to ensure protection and personal security to anyone who feels threatened in the fight against corruption and organized crime. All the more, let's condemn the political attacks that are made to the system by whoever they come from," Jorida said.
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