Prosecutor General, Olsian Çela, said that the first filter of any irregularities or electoral crimes related to May 11 will be carried out in the joint office between SPAK and the Prosecutor General's Office at the Central Election Commission.
"When there is a complaint, there is a finding, there is an identification of a problem, which can be of an administrative, but also criminal nature. At this moment, as soon as the proper assessment of the information is made, since we have a prosecutor from SPAK and a prosecutor from the General Prosecutor's Office present, the subject matter competence is assessed and this material is immediately passed on to the competent prosecutor's office. So we do not lose time and the filtering of information becomes qualitative from the very first moments," said Çela.
According to Chief Prosecutor Çela, district prosecutors' offices have made offices available to BKH agents, part of the SPAK Task Force groups against electoral crimes throughout the country, and that before May 11, he will increase the "army" of prosecutors available in each prosecutor's office.
"As election day approaches, given that there may be an increase in problems and denunciations, it is anticipated that the number of prosecutors on standby lists will increase," he stressed.
Earlier, during the annual work report for 2024 before the High Prosecutorial Council, Çela highlighted as a concern the vacancies in the system due to vetting, according to him 35% fewer prosecutors than the organic number, but also the lack of offices in the buildings of some prosecutors.
"Even if we were to solve the issue of the prosecutors of the Tirana Prosecution Office today, that is, 30 new prosecutors, we would not have offices for them. That is how acute the problem is."
Asked whether ordinary prosecutors face external pressure, such as that alleged by SPAK Prosecutors, Chief Prosecutor Çela said that due to the cases they handle, prosecutors of General Jurisdiction are less exposed, but according to him, the legal framework provides protection for prosecutors to exercise their duties even under pressure.
"This is the prosecutor's job, these are the difficulties of the job that we have." (A2 Televizion)
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