Former prosecutor general sues justice executive body

TIRANA, April 14 – Former Prosecutor General Ina Rama has sued the High Council of Justice, or the KLD, the top judicial executive headed by the country’s president, for leaving her unemployed after she left her post as the country’s top prosecutor.
Rama has asked the Administrative Court to consider her suit against KLD’s decision to leave her unemployed in its last meeting in February.
According to the law, top officials like Rama are allowed to return to the same position where they had been before they took the senior post. Rama had been a judge.
But the KLD decided to turn down her request to return to work for Appeals Court in February. They said she has to run like other candidates for those posts, under a different interpretation to the law.
It has become routine for officials who have kept senior posts not to return to previous posts, as the law says.
Rama has said that the KLD decision had likely been politically motivated.
Though Rama was nominated in the post by the former Democrats and their leader Sali Berisha, she ran counter to their interests and was harshly criticized by them.
She was then called “a boulevard whore” by the former prime minister following the then-opposition Socialists’ deadly protest in January 21, 2011, accusing her of being politically affiliated with the Socialists and being part of an anti-government coup d’etat.
About two years after she left the post at the end of her mandate, she is still unemployed.