Proposed legal amendments preventing courts from suspending senior officials would be a major blow to progress on tackling corruption – and to Albania’s EU accession process, writes legal expert Gentian Serjani.
Gentian Sejrani
Prime Minister Edi Rama last year presented Albania’s progress towards European integration as a direct product of the reforming efforts of his government, with judicial reform as the centrepiece.
Reform of the judiciary constitutes one of the main pillars of Albania’s process of moving towards the European Union as it fulfills the criteria of strengthening the rule of law and the fight against corruption.
Within the framework of judicial reform, specialised institutions were established, such as the Special Structure against Corruption and Organised Crime, SPAK, and the Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime, which have the jurisdiction to investigate and try high-ranking public officials. So far, they have exercised their powers to bring cases against several senior officials, so fulfilling the objectives of the reform to a considerable extent.
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