Prime Minister Edi Rama expresses regret that the Prosecution of Serious Crimes has addressed the media shortly after his speech before the Socialist Group regarding the request for investigation of the MP Saimir Tahiri.

The Prime Minister of Albania advocates that the task of the Prosecutor’s Office is neither to listens to politics nor to argue with politicians, or to publish in the media its opinions about what one politician or another politician says. Likewise, in the Prime Minister’s opinion, the prosecutor neither has the task nor is allowed by the ethics of its function, to nurture political debates with communiqués that seem written in the headquarters of political parties.

He also expressed regret that the prosecutor has allegedly found attempts for intimidation in today’s speech by the Prime Minister. In fact, the head of government and the leader of the parliamentary majority has only expressed the parliamentary group’s opinion based on the report of the Committee of Mandates and Regulation and, obviously, on the not serious at all appearance of the Prosecutor’s at the public hearings of that committee.

The Prime Minister take this opportunity to remind the Prosecutor’s Office that lawmakers are not notaries of the requirements of this body, but have the constitutional obligation to read them, hear the explanations of the representatives of the body in question and, without any doubt, judge based on them.Therefore, he reiterates his appeal to the Prosecution of Serious Crimes to do the work assigned to it by the constitution of Albania and the Albanian legislation, and leave the judgments on politics to the public.

In addition to encouraging a swift, serious and exhaustive investigation into the matter related to Saimir Tahiri, as well as sincerely believing that by accepting the Prosecution’s request, the parliamentary majority has given the prosecution a strong support for a thorough investigation, the Prime Minister of Albania wishes this body every success in its work.