Political bargaining removes Shkelqim Hajdari from the Central Inspectorate!

2026-01-15 21:42:16Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Shkelqim Hajdari

Political bargaining is removing even the few professionals from the leadership of central or local institutions. The current political situation, with numerous scandals, whether in decision-making or with SPAK files, has led to many professionals leaving their leadership positions. Many of them have been indicted by the Special Prosecution Office, while some of those who survived the scandals or even the files are being forced to leave.

Under the pretext of resignations or even renewal, it seems that the fourth term has brought about the appointment of opposition figures at the head of some state institutions. This is in order to weaken the political rival, while even more serious is the dismissal of professionals, those who survived for years and years. Everything has now become a political bargain, as the majority seems to be in its most fragile days, making decisions that are not at all professional and outside of any logic.

One of these decisions is undoubtedly the removal of Shkëlqim Hajdari from the post of Chief Inspector General, in the Central Inspectorate. Since 2016, Hajdari has been at the head of the Inspectorates, undertaking legal initiatives and controlling the numerous agencies created by the government itself, which with its policies has only overlapped the institutions, making useless duplications of them.

Shkelqim Hajdari's own persistent demands to unify inspection practices have finally been heard and all the documentation has been put in order. And, when it seemed that everything had been arranged and the state would now function, here comes the next decision, to remove him from office. Normally, the "arguments" within the majority are very large, given that SPAK continues to stand at their door. Under pressure from any possible accusation, the leaders of the majority found the "culprit", removing Shkelqim Hajdari from office.

Political bargaining is now being done openly and in a very banal way, crossing the red line, as opposition exponents, who until yesterday did not say anything and declared for the majority, suddenly become part of it. Everyone likes to lick "some bone", given that the opposition itself has been out of power for a long time and that little money is nowhere to be seen, since the majority has caught everyone, from the so-called right-wing businessmen, former MPs, district leaders of the Democratic Party or even some former ministers.

Normally, there are always such movements, but not the loss of the ideal or even the political strength of the majority, which, although described as "left", is not behaving as such, as it places opposition exponents in key positions, channels money into a few hands, and creates new capitalists, all at the expense of Albanians, who are seeing emigration as the only alternative to living with dignity and quality services.

The latest decision seems like a professional's throwaway, because if the new or old leaders of the majority don't know, Shkëlqim Hajdari is a professional, having worked in the 1990s as a police officer in Tirana, then as head of the investigative police. In Albania's most difficult years, during the 1997 unrest, he was an officer of the judicial police, a position he held until the 2000s, before being appointed as a prosecutor in Tirana. In 2008, Shkëlqim Hajdari was appointed head of the Appeals Prosecution in Tirana, a position he held until 2015, when, after a dispute with former Chief Prosecutor Adriatik Llalla, he was transferred as a simple prosecutor to Shkodra.

Everyone knows where Llalla is now and where Shëlqim Hajdari has been over the last decade, where the former chief prosecutor was investigated and convicted of corruption, while Çimi took over the position of chief inspector at the Central Inspectorate in 2016, to hold until early 2026. His last task was to unify inspection practices, as we have often seen agency inspectors going to businesses more like a "gang" to extort something rather than to fix the problems.

Normally, if Albania were a country that rewarded meritocracy, Shkelqim Hajdari would have been directly appointed to head some other institution. However, the leaders of the majority are on time, because instead of looking for names from the opposition, they have them from their own ranks!

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