uL stration laws dealing with state administration in Albania
Albanians and Albania in the past. This kind of law will guarantee a pure democratic life,
a quiet process of transition ..., and Memoriam of the past and will be an important step to
punish communism and its acts.35
While during the discussions of this law in parliamentary sessions a deputy registered to say:
“This law aim that lustration that guarantees a pure democracy in Albania...” 36
Thereby, the intended purpose of the Verification law was to prevent, or, remove who served as a
leader in the political structures of the Party of Labor, etc., to be part of Albanian political life or
state apparatus. Consequently, to be part of state administration.
As per continuing our analysis, for fulfilling the purpose of this law was foreseen the establishment
of a commission – Commission of Verifying Public Figures, a.k.a. Mezini and Bezhani
commissions. Archives of these commissions, based on the law nr.45 / 2015, dated 30.04.2015
infra, are kept by Files Authority. According to official information provided by experts of Files
Authority:
“There are 139 files of the “Mezini” commission. These files contain various documents,
mainly correspondences of the “Mezini” Commission with various institutions, decisions of
this commission in the context of verification of various public figures presented by different
political entities. In the nominal lists submitted by political entities, there is no information
as to whether people hold civil servant positions. In addition to the above files, part of this
archive fund is as well as the so-called protocol register, which reflect the names of citizens
verified by this commission, but it’s not registered for the job position of these citizens, held
at the time of verification.” 37
While from the files of the Bezhani Commission, the same expert of Files Authority has
stated that: “the Archives Directorate stores and manages 730 decisions, which correspond
to public institutions and political entities of the time. In addition to the above documents,
part of this archive fund is the practices of other institutions, for which we do not have the
decisions of the relevant committees. From the above, it is impossible to identify precisely
the verifications carried out specifically for civil servants by the “Mezini” and “Bezhani”
Commissions during the period 1995-2001”38
But indeed even after consulting Mezini and Bezhani Commissions files39 based on difficulties
to identify precisely the verifications carried out specifically for civil servants by them, i.e.,
their failure to keep documentation in accordance with bureaucratic rules because of the
lack of administrative supportive staff for members of the Commissions, i.e. secretaries; lack
of appropriate infrastructure, i.e., offices, ink, papers, computers, and so further, lack of the
determination of concrete job position of the individuals under the process of verification, we
can only make guesses about the number of civil servants, as per categories foresaw by the law,
verified by these commissions. For instance, for every individual under the process of verification
is filled a form as below:
35. Official letter sent to the Parliament by Council of Ministers, Report on the Draft-Law “On the control of the moral figure of
officials and other persons connected with the protection of the democratic state”, nr. 3871, dated 22/11/1995, page 10.
36. Parliamentary Plenary Session dated 30.11.1995, time 17:00, page 1668.
37. This information is declared by the Right of information coordinator of Files Authority.
38. Ibid.
39. We have consulted these files from 26 August – 9 September 2019 at the Files Authority premises, under the help of Ms. Ornela
Arapaj – Specialist of Research.
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