Democrat MP Oerd Bylykbashi, a former vice chairman of the defunct parliamentary commission for the Judiciary Reform in Albania, has highlighted three paradoxes of Premier Edi Rama’s Reform. Bylykbashi writes that, according to Rama, the General Prosecutor can be elected without passing through the vetting process, offering no guarantees for their integrity. “Apparently, the vetting is a net for small fish, because it cannot hold the big ones”, Bylykbashi writes.

“The paradoxes of Rama’s Judiciary Reform:

1- The Law foresees that the incumbent General Prosecutor can lose his post should he not pass the vetting process.

However, the interim General Prosecutor may start working without vetting (according to Rama and the chorus that follows him).

2- A simple prosecutor can lose his job should he not pas the vetting process.

However, his superior, the interim General Prosecutor, can be appointed by Rama without vetting.

3- The permanent General Prosecutor must be elected after passing the vetting process, and, despite of being safe integrity-wise, he must be elected with 84 votes, in order not to be controlled by the Prime Minister.

The interim General Prosecutor, which can be elected without vetting – according to Rama – offering no guarantees for their integrity, can be elected only with Premier’s 36 votes. So, the PM may seize and put him in his pocket.

After tiring the people’s heads with the vetting, now it figures to be just a net for the small fish. It cannot hold the big ones. The paradoxes of charlatanism”.