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The blue blood of the magistrates and the apprentices of the Republic

2026-09-08 15:32:35Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
The blue blood of the magistrates and the apprentices of the Republic
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Magistrates' salaries are no longer a debate about the independence of justice. They are now a debate about the social discrimination that the state itself is producing.

A police chief is paid around 90 thousand lek per month. A prosecutor or judge, with the system they have set for themselves, is paid 900 thousand lek per month or more.

Tenfold difference!

Absurdly sitting cross-legged!

The chief of the police station is on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No one asks him if it's Sunday, night or holiday. He gets involved in accidents, murders, protests, conflicts, police operations. Danger is part of his daily life. A wrong decision can cost him his life.

What about the prosecutor?

He starts work at eight. At nine he has his first coffee. At lunch he is at a restaurant. He usually comes to court unprepared. At four in the afternoon he closes the office. Of course, his job has great legal responsibilities, but the physical risk compared to the police is almost zero.

However, he is paid ten times more.

This is no longer a pay gap. This is a caste declaration.

The irony is even greater when you consider that without the work of the police, the prosecutor's file does not exist. It is the police who collects evidence, pursues the perpetrators, makes arrests, and exposes themselves in the field. The prosecutor builds the accusation on the work of the police. But in the end, the policeman remains the apprentice, while the prosecutor becomes the king.

When the difference becomes tenfold, it's not just the salary that changes, nor just the hierarchy. The color of the blood also changes. The policeman has red blood. The magistrate has acquired blue blood.

What about the teacher?

A teacher, who educates generations, receives about 75 thousand lek per month. A judge receives at least 900 thousand. Over ten times more.

With a salary decision, the Republic of Kosovo Supreme Court has declared that the one who punishes a person is worth ten times more than the one who educates a person.

Then we wonder why schools are empty and prisons are full.

Society pays more for the executioner than the educator.

This is the message that these salaries also give.

Let's be clear, good salaries are a guarantee of the independence of justice. No one denies that judges and prosecutors should be paid well. But independence is not a privilege. It is not a title of nobility. It is not a license to build a financial aristocracy within the public administration. It is not a decree of social distinction.

Independence means being free from political influence, but it does not mean being independent of the state that pays you.

Today, the magistrates have practically said to the Republic: we are its highest class. Above the police. Above the teacher. Above the doctor. Above the military. Even above the deputy. Above the head of state, yes, yes, yes, He has no mind here...

The MP, who votes on the laws that judges and prosecutors are obligated to implement, is paid about 300 thousand lek per month. Almost three times less.

So, not only above the administration. Magistrates have also elevated themselves above the legislative branch.

This is not separation of powers. This is self-proclaimed social hierarchy.

And here begins the constitutional and political problem.

Salaries cannot be built according to the logic of castes. It cannot be every power that assigns itself a place at the top of the pyramid. Otherwise, tomorrow every institution will declare itself the most important in the Republic.

Parliament has the obligation to restore the logic of the state. To build an integrated salary system, where responsibility, burden, risk and public importance are weighed with the same measure for everyone. Not a system where each power places the crown on itself and then asks citizens to call this "independence."

Because there is no independence from the state.

There is only independence within the state.

And in a republic, no one's blood can be blue.


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