TIRANA, April 1 /ATA/ – By I. Vata/ – Parliamentary Committee for Legal Issues, Public Administration and Human Rights, presided over by chairman Ulsi Manja, approved on Monday’s meeting two draft resolutions: “On evaluation of 2018 activity of CEC” and “Evaluation of 2018 activity of Institute for Studies of Crimes and Consequences of Communism.”
In the previous sessions, the two heads of relevant institutions, Klement Zguri and Agron Tufa, have reported the annual activity during 2018 before this committee.
In the draft resolution “On evaluation of the activity of the Central Election Commission for 2018”, the Socialist Party MP, Bashkim Fino, put the emphasis on the material reflecting the commission’s activity as follows: adoption of the work program in accordance with the Periodic Reporting Manual ; taking measures to guarantee the proper functioning of election administration; increased care for close monitoring of the conditions and legal criteria for public and private funding of the election campaign; setting up campaign monitoring mechanisms in the media; elaboration of appropriate electoral education strategies; streamlining procedures for accreditation of election observers; monitoring the use of state resources; drafting methodologies for controlling and verifying expenditures and financing of political parties and electoral campaigns; collection of financial liabilities from fined entities and revision of CEC’s online identification address.
At the end of discussion, with overwhelming majority of votes the draft resolution containing the suggestions was referred to plenary session.
Socialist Party MP, Adnor Shametaj, through the draft resolution “On Evaluation of the 2018 activity of the Institute for Studies of Crimes and Consequences of Communism in Albania,” requested and recommended on behalf of the Assembly for the Institute continuation of public awareness on the material heritage of communism; ongoing publication of activities that constitute violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms; the study of mechanisms used by state and party bodies, research into the forms of moral and cultural resistance in dictatorship-run prisons and the study of the social and cultural consequences of dictatorship upon individuals; rehabilitation of the victims of the communist system; elaboration of chronological comparative analysis between Albanian communism and that of Central and Eastern European countries; studies on the role of Albanian media and journalism in the post-communist period, continuation and deepening of cooperation with Albanian Radio-Television on exposure of the Institute’s study work and provision of online access to the Institute’s activity.
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