Votes for PS in exchange for jobs in administration
The DP political leader in Fier district, Gazment Bardhi has filed a criminal report on the deputy prime minister, at the same time the political leader of Fier, Belinda Balluku. Bardhi accuses Balluk of « electoral corruption » of employment in the administration. On the other hand, Bardhi calls on the SPAK to prove the fight against electoral crimes, saying that he has not seen a concrete commitment from the prosecution. This case, according to Bardhi, proves that Balluku is directly buying the will of the Albanians.
Full statement from Gazment Bardhi
Today I have submitted to the SPAK the irrefutable evidence of Belinda Balluku’s election corruption and its electoral gang in the district of Fier. I want to thank the Honest Socialists of the SP Staffs with gratitude who report violations because they cannot accept electoral crimes as a form of keeping a degraded power.
A full list of hundreds of names, generated by the Socialist Party’s electoral headquarters, in which besides the name, paternity, surname, the polling station, education, previous employment, position in the SP structures or campaign engagement, and the promise to be employed in a position in the state administration or workplace is marked.
To illustrate with an example from this list, without damaging the investigative secret: « Citizen S.L., with education pedagogy, previously employed in Albpetrol, chairman of the Socialist Organization in Voting Center 2983/1, seeks to be employed by DSPRTR or director. » The database also lists the order left for employment or whether or not the person has brought electoral employment documents.
In the present case we are before consuming the criminal offense of « Active Corruption in Election », in the form of a promise of jobs or employment to support the Socialist Party and its candidates, for which the Criminal Code provides for imprisonment of up to 5 (five) years.
The SPAK has the golden opportunity to prove how serious the strategy and task force it has set up to combat electoral crimes is, making today the identification and arrest of the responsible persons of this criminal scheme, starting with the SP political leader for the Fier District and each of its subordinates, part of the electoral gang, which has turned Fier into a few months of corruption. So far, unfortunately by the SPAK, except for the opening of an office or donating some computers by the OSCE, no real commitment has been noted to crack down on the electoral crimes consumed in front of everyone every second in the district of Fier.
This case proves that Edi Rama, Belinda Balluku and the Socialist Party have not only not given up on crime and electoral corruption, but have already raised it to another level, directly buying the will of Albanian citizens. Some with cash, some with permission and licenses, others with legalizations or certificates of ownership, others with jobs, somewhere with criminal pressure on businesses, and someone else with pressure from criminal groups. Everything and everything to keep power worn out of corruption and prevent rotation.
But Edi Rama, Belinda Balluku, the director of Alpetrol, the Director of Taxes and any of their servants in corruption and illegality should know today that they will receive exemplary punishment for all their acts, while no maneuver can stop the big change that has begun across the country for a magnificent Albania.