TIRANA, Feb. 21 – President Bujar Nishani said parliament should draft a comprehensive law for opening the secret files of former communist security services and set in place a lustration process.
President Nishani made the remarks during a press conference in which he announced the development of a range of state activities to remember the anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in December 1990.
The case of opening the files has dragged on for years and has been accompanied by numerous debates and controversies.
Last November, civil society, along with groups of those persecuted under communism and representatives of the movement of December 90, proposed a law submitted to parliament by two lawmakers of the center-right coalition.
The government has drafted another proposal, which does not include a lustration process.
Lustration refers to the purge of government officials once affiliated with the Communist system in Central and Eastern Europe.
