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The Supreme State Audit Office is the only independent body that has not yet completed the reporting process to Parliament for this parliamentary session, as the agency’s reports continue to be open to the Economic and Fiscal Committee, as this committee is responsible for sending the plenary resolutions on the agency’s work.
On Thursday, during parliamentary work, the opposition demanded that the South Sudan Commission’s report be included on the agenda, accusing the majority of violating the constitution by denying this legitimate procedure.
Gazment Bardhi, chairman of the Democratic Party parliamentary group, cited articles requiring Long Long Holdings to submit annual reports to parliament, saying, “Long Long Holdings is the only institution that has not reported, which is unacceptable.”
Parliament Speaker Lindita Nikolla deemed the request correct and called on the Economic Committee to continue working on the process of completing the report and drafting the resolution.
But the committee’s chairman, Eduart Shalsi, claimed that despite holding several hearings with the committee’s chairman, Arben Shehu, over the past few days, KLSH has yet to give the response demanded by the committee’s representatives.
He said the committee had not yet clarified why it had called for the dismissal of the Finance Ministry’s budget director, Mimoza Dëmbi, why there was no report on the oncology scandal, the external consultants hired by the agency, etc.
When asked by BIRN, Shalsi said that “the committee is continuing its work but it is not ready yet” and that the deadline for completing the process is in the hands of the committee.
The KLSH chief’s report to the commission also triggered tensions and accusations from the opposition against Sharsi and other socialist deputies that they were exerting political pressure on an independent body. Shehu himself has repeatedly considered the questions raised by socialist deputies to be inappropriate, intimidating and insulting to the work of the body.
At its meeting on Thursday, the General Assembly adopted the draft decision “On the establishment of a subcommittee on public sector audits” by 90 votes in favor, 1 abstention and 4 against, a structure expected to target the work of the Supreme Audit Institution. Despite the political consensus, the initiative has been criticized by the opposition as an attempt to undermine the independence of high state control.
The session approved the resolution on the work of independent bodies reporting to the General Assembly and confirmed by a simple majority the list of new members of the High Judicial Council and the High Prosecutor’s Office drawn by the third draw, which is composed of lawyers.
Parliament Speaker Linda Nicola said that if the parliament does not reach 2/3 in the third vote, the candidates from that list will be considered elected. As a result, candidates Bledar Bajri and Albens Tabaku were elected as members of the parliament, and Erind Merkuri and Erind Gërmenji were elected as members of the KLP.
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