TIRANA, October 21 – The head of the Socialist Party (SP) Parliamentary Group, Taulant Balla, in a statement to the media before the filing of the draft law on the opening of the former State Security Files, said on Friday that the law will have two new initiatives.
The first is what in everyday language is known as the law on decriminalization according to which if the person holding a public office is verified to have been a collaborator of the state security, in addition to being deprived of the right to exercise the function, he is also prosecuted.
The second initiative is about political parties. “Today SP presents two more initiatives for the detention of persons with past connections with the notorious former state security. There are two initiatives, the first one is about changing the law on the integrity of persons who are elected and appointed to public positions or the decriminalization law and the other for political parties,” said Balla.
According to him, the first initiative foresees the prohibition of persons to take public positions if a connection with state security is proved. “The verification is carried out on the basis of self-declaration and if it turns out to be untrue, in addition to the loss of being in public office, the person is charged with criminal responsibility,” he said.
In the meantime, Balla said that the second initiative on the change to the party law has the same approach, that is, those who have been collaborators of the security cannot be party leaders in the democratic system.
“These two initiatives are the right legal premises for the spies of the regime to no longer be part of any public office,” the head of the SP parliamentary group said. /Argumentum.al
