Lustration is a painful process and what has been going on recently is not surprising, the experts who drafted the law, say. The lustration commission should continue its work and there is no need of rushing and putting of pressure in order to obtain the original files that may be kept by the secret services of the ex-YU republics.

After the commission for verification of facts declared the functionaries of BDI, Minister Musa Xhaferi and MP Fazli Veliu, as clean for the second time, and following the announcements from GEM (Citizens for European Macedonia), that new documents are expected in someone else’s yards and the doubts concerning the capacity and dignity of the lustration commission members, the dilemma whether and how the lustration should continue imposed itself openly.

“The commission should continue its work checking other categories of holders of public offices,” says Marjan Madzovski, one of the authors of the law.

Since the start of the effective process of lustration in September last year to date, around 250 functionaries have passed through the lustration filter. However, judges, prosecutors, mayors, council members, etc, are yet to be investigated. The storm began after a few files about functionaries of BDI appeared in public and got to the commission via a third person, although certain political parties had previously warned that unless the process speeded up they would begin revealing compromising documents.