'Throw the stone, hide your hand', the dangerous precedent set by the 'Shalsi' Commission with the Meeting of budget director of the MF, Mimoza Tooth

In a long and carefully chosen presentation, The Chairman of the Economic Commission, Eduard Shalsi announced a point off the agenda at the meeting on Tuesday. It was a hearing session, but not with the head of institutions, nor with representatives who were to speak to the deputies on behalf of the institutions.

The hearing was called with the Director of Budget and Debt at the Ministry of Finance, Mimoza Tomb on the same schedule that the High State Audit should report to the commission. The official reason eduard shalsi gave to colleagues, in the absence of the legal basis to support this hearing, was that the MPs were concerned by the findings of a report of the Supreme State Audit, which required the dismissal of Mimoza Tomb from the task.

The hearing was so unexpected even for socialist MPs themselves, who had difficulty finding arguments about why an official of the Ministry of Finance should be heard in parliament on a personal matter, which is legally resolved through the country's courts.

Two of them, however, dared. Milva Ekonomi spoke about how in trainings they have done in an international body of parliaments they have learned the practices when the Assembly calls for clarifications for personal issues of state officials, while Erion Braçe was given to the High State Control, which according to him, should include in the report political responsibility, i.e. the head of the institution.

The purpose of this article is neither to analyze the findings of the Supreme State Audit nor the professionalization of Mimoza Tomb, with a long career of more than 3 decades in the Ministry of Finance, where he has hosted and followed over 10 ministers.

The purpose of the writing is to denounce the unfatuated practice followed by the Economic Commission and the Assembly, because as much as Eduard Shalsi tried with careful language to explain how the hearing served the public and citizens, its sole purpose was to 'unseal' mimoza tooth's name from the 'stain' placed in the report of the High State Audit.

Why? There are several reasons, but below are the two main ones.

First, the Assembly has been familiar with the ALSAI report since autumn of last year, and even approved it through the resolution with relevant recommendations to this institution.

Second, the Supreme State Control is an independent body. Findings in his reports (in cases where THE KLSh itself does not report to the prosecution office) can be challenged in administrative courts by officials for whom the ALSAI recommends measures, as in the case of Mimoza Tooth, for which the dismissal is required.

For this reason, Mimoza Tooth's listening to the Economic Commission set an extralegal and more dangerous precedent for relations between independent organs of the state. According to her example, every employee with the status of civil servant, starting from the lowest employee enjoying this status in the smallest municipality of the country, to the central apparatus in the Prime Minister, for which the ALSAI can request dismissal, has the right to be heard before the Economy Commission.

This is certain to not happen, as the Chairman of the Commission, Eduard Shalsi himself said before the hearing with Mimoza Tooth, the commission has had long working hours these last days of the session, where it has reviewed a host of draft laws and decisions. However, the 'fall out' with the official work of law review did not prevent the same commission from carrying out an extra-legal task... where the purpose was to put the Assembly against the ALSA through the tactic of 'throw the stone and hide your hand'.

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