Two senior directors of Albanian state apparatus resigned on Thursday, in a move that will help proceed faster with judicial reform that Albania is going through.

The Director General of Money Laundering Prevention Alket Hysenaj and the Director of Classified Information Security Arben  Seferi offered their resignations on Thursday.

The institutions they were heading are an important part of the vetting process, the key component of the judicial reform. The directors themselves were accused by the opposition as being close to the Prime Minister Edi Rama.

In a Facebook post, PM Rama thanked the directors for the resignation “to remove any alibi for the judicial reform opponents. Reform does not stop, vetting will not be avoided.”

The vetting law is the key component of the judicial reform in the country, one of the most important requests of the European Commission before opening accession negotiations with Albania, a country aspiring to join the European Union.

The EURALIUS, an EU technical assistance project to assist in the consolidation of the justice system in Albania says that the Vetting law will initiate an evaluation process for the judges and prosecutors, members of the Constitutional Court and the High Court, legal advisors in the Constitutional and High Court, legal assistants in the administrative courts and legal assistants in the General Prosecution Office.

“The evaluation process will be based on the assets check, background check (connections with the crime and criminals) and professionalism of the judges and prosecutors,” EURALIUS says in its website./tvklan.al