The Commission of Security has rejected President Ilir Meta’s decree on the vetting of state police. Meta had requested a revision of the Law on Vetting of the State Police, considering it as a threat and possibility to be influenced by the government.

Invited to report in the Commission, Interior Minister Sandër Lleshaj described the President’s Decree as was pre judgmental for his institution and used the word “paranoiac” for Meta, implying it was personal against him from the time when Meta refused to decree him as the Interior Minister.

“The vetting of the state police is a competence of the Internal Affairs. Vetting is not political”, Lleshaj said in the Commission today.