{"id":25887,"date":"2021-11-24T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=25887"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:00:21","slug":"spak-shouldnt-get-involved-in-vetting-politicians-says-head-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/spak-shouldnt-get-involved-in-vetting-politicians-says-head-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAK shouldn\u2019t get involved in vetting politicians, says head prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arben Kraja has come out in opposition to the Democratic Party\u2019s request to have SPAK carry out the vetting of politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The head of SPAK maintained that his institution can\u2019t be involved in this case because it creates ground for partiality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already been through an experience which I consider negative during the first year of our work, with the so-called normative act or OFL. It was precisely this situation \u2013 a duty tasked to us by law, which completely messed up the focus of our work and objective,\u201d \u2013 said Kraja.<\/p>\n<p>This stance wasn\u2019t received particularly well by the Democratic camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expecting another answer by the director of the Special Prosecution (SPAK). Seeing that he represents an institution whose mission is to fight organized crime and corruption. I am surprised to see that SPAK refuses to get involved in a process that fights crime and corruption,\u201d \u2013 said Gazmend Bardhi, Secretary-General of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ombudsman, Erinda Ballanca declared that citizens are convinced that the vetting of politicians will be a solution to many problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/11\/05\/albania-to-address-venice-commission-on-extending-vetting-mandate\/\">Albania to address Venice Commission on extending vetting mandate<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/10\/21\/constitutional-reform-us-ambassador-calls-on-parliament-to-extend-vetting-term\/\">Constitutional Reform, US ambassador calls on Parliament to extend vetting term<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arben Kraja has come out in opposition to the Democratic Party\u2019s request to have SPAK carry out the vetting of politicians. The head of SPAK maintained that his institution can\u2019t be involved in this case because it creates ground for partiality. \u201cWe have already been through an experience which I consider negative during the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPAK shouldn\u2019t get involved in vetting politicians, says head prosecutor - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/spak-shouldnt-get-involved-in-vetting-politicians-says-head-prosecutor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPAK shouldn\u2019t get involved in vetting politicians, says head prosecutor - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arben Kraja has come out in opposition to the Democratic Party\u2019s request to have SPAK carry out the vetting of politicians. 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