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The members whose mandate has ended were proposed by the government and the SP parliamentary group in 2018, among them Ridvan Bode, former Minister of Finance in the DP government, and Suela Popa, former Director of AZHBR in the first 2013-2017 mandate of the "Rama" government, appointed as a representative of the SMI...
The two rulers of politics and the state, Sali Berisha and Edi Rama, continue to publicly act as each other's "enemies", while behind the scenes they maintain a functional bargaining relationship. A bargaining that has nothing to do with ideology, but with the sharing of real power: building permits for towers, public tenders and appointments of clients to the heads of key state institutions.
After the coordinated scenario for the appointment of Endri Shabani to the position of Ombudsman, Rama and Berisha have moved on to another bargain, this time for the Supervisory Council of the Bank of Albania, one of the country's most important financial and monetary institutions.
According to the law, the mandate of the members of the Supervisory Council is 7 years. For four of them, the mandate ends on December 15, 2025: Ridvan Bode, Edlira Luçi, Artan Hoxha and Suela Popa, the wife of Vangjel Tavo. By December 1, the government and the Parliament should have initiated the procedures for the selection and submission of candidates to the Parliamentary Committee on Economy and Finance, while the vote in parliament should have taken place by December 15.
None of this has happened. The process has not even started. The reason is simple: Rama and Berisha have deliberately blocked, in agreement with each other, the decision on whether or not the four current members will receive a second 7-year mandate, or whether the seats will be redistributed according to new political interests.
The Supervisory Board consists of 9 members. Five of them are appointed by the Assembly through SP-DP agreements, three are appointed by the government and one by the Bank's Supervisory Board itself. The four members whose mandate is expiring were proposed in 2018 by the government and the SP parliamentary group, among them Ridvan Bode, former Minister of Finance in the DP governments, and Suela Popa, former director of AZHBR in the first mandate of the Rama government, then appointed as a representative of the SMI.
But now, when the SP and the DP are "eating from the same bowl", Sali Berisha wants to secure his people in the Supervisory Council of the Bank of Albania. This is the real cause of the blocking of the process. Not the lack of candidacies, but the bargaining for names and influence.
This episode is not isolated. It is part of a series of tacit agreements between Rama and Berisha: the division of posts, the doubling of officials' salaries, the establishment of the anti-SPAK commission headed by Fatmir Xhafaj, the receipt and recognition of the DP seal, the criminal amnesty to release officials and traffickers convicted by SPAK and GJKKO, the bargaining for the Electoral Code, the Ombudsman, permits for towers and resorts, and other schemes that keep the old political order afloat.
While the public is sold an artificial conflict between the two camps, the real state continues to be governed by their bargaining. And the Bank of Albania, an institution that should be outside any political bargaining, remains hostage to this silent agreement./ Pamphlet
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