TIRANA, Oct. 7 – The National Assembly of the Socialist Party gathered ministers, representatives of various public posts and Prime Minister Edu Rama to present the objectives of the government in its first 100 days of work.
Minister of Interior, Fatmir Xhafaj, focused on the importance of implementing the State Police reform, while Rama summed up all the objectives and particularly highlighted the war on corruption and the need to clean, both literally and figuratively, the country.
“We will begin the vetting of the police within the first 100 days and prepare the legal framework for this vetting process, as well as strengthen community policing,” Xhafaj said.
Xhafaj added that cooperative operation between the State Police and other law-enforcing institutions will take place.
“The war against organized crime is the main challenge of the mandate as a whole, but during the first 100 days we will take some decisive steps forward. An official report of a national cannabis monitoring will be soon made available to the public. We will continue fighting the criminal groups that cultivate it,” Xhafaj said. “We will fully reorganize the investigative system of the police; establish inter-institutional structures that will target illegality and manage the borders.”
Xhafaj expressed his conviction that “in the months to come we will collectively speak more of justice in action, the real power of the law, the authority of the state, especially in regards to fighting organized crime and the criminal groups that nurture it.”
Rama’s speech summed up the objectives presented by each respective minister and gave an overview of what to look forward to politically from the government.
“To sum up what will be of substance in the following 100 days, and will remain essential in the first 300 days, we need to clean up in all levels, physical cleaning of the streets, but also of institutions. Start a war against inherited corruption; structural cleaning of all the mechanisms of the executive power,” Rama said. “We need a service, and we must not neglect any detail, any relation with our country, and we need punishment on all levels related to exhibiting corruption, abuse and any sign of incompetence that affects the citizens.”
Rama said progress was seen in the context of what the country still needs to go through in the context of the EU enlargement.
“During the first 100 days, we also need to make definitions regarding the accession negotiations of the upcoming years,” Rama said. “We must clean the framework upon which the process of registering Albanians abroad will be established. We must continue trying to set citizens free of the burden of bureaucracy and procedural dragging. We must use economic diplomacy as a new tool in report to our economy and define the framework of the police vetting, in order to penetrate the cancerous units within the state police.”
