The photo with Veliaj "burns" the judge / SPAK candidates demand a review of the law on special institutions

The disqualification of Judge Gerd Hoxha from running for the anti-corruption court, due to a photo with Mayor Erion Veliaj taken at one of the British embassy meetings, will be reviewed by the constitutional court this week.

On March 27, the constitutional assembly, initiated by the Tirana Administrative Court and with interested parties, will discuss the law on the special institutions SPAK and the anti-corruption court.

Article 6 of this law is questioned by Judge Hoxha and especially the composition of the Special Commission that verifies candidates for the anti-corruption court. In this case, this commission consists of two SPAK prosecutors, an anti-corruption judge and two investigators, who on July 24 of last year disqualified the candidate Gerd Hoxha, today the deputy president of the Tirana court, due to a random photo.

Gerd Hoxha considers the decision-making of the commission, which includes investigators and is the final filter before the candidates are reviewed by the KLP and KLGJ, to be unconstitutional. But what makes this issue special is not the handshake with the mayor of Tirana. But the constitutional debate over this filter, which already holds in suspense not only the name of the candidate for anti-corruption judge.

And especially the precedent repeated for the third time in a row on the process of selecting names for SPAK and GJKKO. The first was Sonila Muhametaj who dreamed of SPAK, however, she was not selected. After making accusations about this process in Albania, the prosecutor turned to Strasbourg. The second is prosecutor Ndini Tavani who has also opened his battle by letting it be known that he is not giving up on SPAK despite being rejected by the assessments of a similar commission later certified in the KLP.

Like prosecutor Muhametaj, Tavani has filed a complaint against the High Prosecutorial Council. However, the trials are being conducted at a time when SPAK has been expanded to include 20 prosecutors, and it seems that with this persistence, the two competing prosecutors are intent on revealing truths that only they know.

Or at best they want to show that the winners were selected with preference. However, the process of contestant Tavani has stalled on appeal, because the administration has decided to wait for the constitutional court to see what it will say in the Gred Hoxha case.

Prosecutor Tavani considers such a delay, dragging out the process indefinitely, intentional, and has therefore filed an appeal with the Supreme Court. Which again seems to be taking its time. /Top Channel