Socialist lawmaker sued on fake identity cards

TIRANA, March 16 – Gramoz Ruci, head of the main opposition Socialist Party’s parliamentary group, has been sued from the Interior Ministry of producing fake documents for the identity cards which he presented as fake ones in a parliamentary debate.
Deputy Interior Minister Ferdinand Poni said they had asked prosecutor’s office to start the penal case against Ruci of falsifying documentation and distributing fake information.
Earlier this month Ruci presented to the deputies copies of some identity cards which he said had been produced from the government last year to vote in two different places. He directly accused the governing Democrats for producing them in order to manipulate the June 28 parliamentary polls.
Using them Ruci asked the government to produce all the lists of the voters used in the last polls.
As a counter balance Poni said that Ruci and the Socialists had produced the fake documents to exploit them in their political fight.
But that is purely a political fight.
Every body is aware that such a suing is only a political tool that the political parties have often exploited to show their strength and keep support of their militants.
In a normal case the prosecutor’s office would first investigate whether such an act makes up a penal case and only after that they would ask the parliament to lift the lawmaker’s immunity.
The last step would probably be not a problem as the number of the governing Democrats’ lawmakers would be enough to lift Ruci’s immunity. But also every body knows that fight would not go to that last stage.
Each political grouping makes the political fight but they also ‘protect’ each other in a hidden secret not open way.
None would believe that the prosecutor’s office would stat such an investigation against a lawmaker and then ask the parliament lift his immunity.