Christian Democrats support file opening, want investigation on Koha Jone destruction

TIRANA, Oct. 25 – Christian Democratic leader Nard Ndokaj said Wednesday they supported the idea of opening the files of former collaborators of the secret police, the Sigurimi of the communist period. The party has presented a draft of a law on the process and appealed to the two main parties, the governing Democrats and opposition Socialists to support their initiative Their draft law would hamper any person found to be a former Sigurimi collaborator in continuing to keep high government posts. “Opening the Sigurimi files has turned into the most debated issue of the political life and is being politically instrumentalized,” said Ndokaj. “We think such a problem may be arranged based on a law and not remain as a declarative saying because that would leave space for abuse.”
In another development, former Christian Democrats’ leader Nikolle Lesi, also publisher of Koha Jone newspaper, publicly asked the government to restart investigation of the destruction of the paper offices in March 1997. That was at the time they were criticizing the then-Democratic Party government and president Sali Berisha.
The two main parties have also presented their own draft laws, accompanied with continuous accusation that each of them had many former Sigurimi collaborators among their ranks. It seems that the three draft laws do not differ much from each other and have the same purpose.