Gazment Bardhi issued a harsh press release today, categorically denying that the Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime has sent any notification to the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group.
According to him, "SPAK has not sent any notification, so the group's political staff had nothing to refuse."
Bardhi's announcement states, among other things, that SPAK's reference to a lie spread by the Assembly "deserves only contempt." According to Bardhi, SPAK is aware that it has not sent any notification to the parliamentary group, while providing postal services is not the responsibility of the group's staff, as there has been no notification from the parliamentary administration in the mailboxes of any DP MP in the Assembly.
The chairman of the DP parliamentary group expresses "regret for the political misuse of the Special Prosecution Office", which according to him is being used for daily propaganda by the socialist majority.
But it remains inexplicable how it is possible that the group leader, the DP leader and the DP vice-leader, all three of them simultaneously did not see the facsimile of the publication of the SPAK summons against Sali Berisha, which is circulating in all media, and did not inquire at the DP offices or the Assembly administration to verify whether such a notification had arrived or did not request any institutional clarification for the document related to the historical leader of the party.
Instead of clarifying the essential fact – that Sali Berisha has been summoned to SPAK – the leaders of the DP have, either tacitly or intentionally, joined the same political line: that of attacking the Special Prosecution Office.
This seems even more strange from Mr. Gazment Bardhi, who just a few days ago enthusiastically welcomed SPAK's actions in investigating Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku. Can an already experienced politician take the worst example of his chairman and have incoherence as a model of approach in relations with people? Can this SPAK have a good day when investigating the government and a bad day when investigating Sali Berisha or Arlind Ndroje?
By lining up alongside Berisha, the PD's leading trio joins in strongly on the anti-SPAK chorus, a song that is expected to continue for a long time, while the investigations for January 21st enter a decisive phase. And likely, as the history of the last two years has shown, to transform the PD into a new bunker from where Sali Berisha will strike his biggest opponent – the Special Prosecution. Rather than the government or Edi Rama, it seems that someone else has thought about them.
