Same name, two vacations, two different ratings. The process of electing Holta Zaçaj as a member of the Constitutional Court instead of Vitore Tuša is covered by strong shadows of suspicion that it was predetermined.
Doubts arise from the fact that in the span of four months, the candidate Holta Zaçaj has two scoring evaluations given by the Judicial Appointments Council.
In the first evaluation, on August 11, 2022, Holta Zaçaj was evaluated by the Judicial Appointments Council with 82.2 points.
Four months later, on December 23, 2022, with an announcement on the official website, the same institution publishes the list of candidates to replace Vitoren Tuša as the ninth member of the Constitutional Court.
There are two candidates, Holta Zaçaj and Elsa Miha. In this announcement, Holta Zaçaj is evaluated with 84.72 points, while Elsa Miha with 82.22 points. Voting in the Supreme Court was divided by an equal number of votes, while three votes were declared invalid.
As ranked first in the KED list, Holta Zaçaj was elected a member of the Constitutional Court, benefiting from the 2.7 points that the Council added to her compared to the assessment given in August.
If Zaçaj did not have this addition, the other candidate, Elsa Miha, would be first on the KED list with only 0.2 points more. The difference is small, but enough to change the winner in the race for a seat on the Constitutional Court.
What further deepens the doubts is the fact how Holta Zaçaj's points were added, since there is no public decision-making by the Judicial Appointments Council, where the professionalism of Holta Zaçaj was re-evaluated, increasing 2.7 points in the final evaluation.