2026-09-28 21:43:39Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Belinda Balluku

The investigation broadcast by Fiks Fare does not only raise a political issue about the influence that Belinda Balluku may continue to have in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy. It raises a much more serious issue about what has happened in practice with the security measure "suspension from duty" imposed on her by the GJKKO at the request of SPAK.

On November 19, 2025, the Special Court imposed on Balluk the measure of "suspension from exercising a public duty or service", specifically from the functions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy. SPAK announced that the measure was executed on November 20.

And the law is clear about the meaning of this measure. Article 242 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the court temporarily prohibits the defendant, in whole or in part, from the activity related to the public office from which he/she has been suspended.

Balluku challenged the measure in court. But on July 16, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled to reject her appeal against the Special Appeal decision.

So, legally, the suspension was not a political statement nor was it advice that could be implemented at will. It was a judicial measure.

This is where Fiks Fare's investigation takes on another weight. From the conversations broadcast by the show, heads of institutions under the Ministry of Infrastructure speak of Balluku as if her influence had not been interrupted. Expressions such as "if Bela brings the name...", references to her as "the boss", or the metaphor "soldiers are replaced, the queen is not", according to Fiks Fare's material, create the perception of a structure where the minister may have been removed from office, but not necessarily from the mechanism of influence.

It is no longer just a question of whether his former subordinates continue to respect him or consider him a figure of political importance. The point is that Balluku has specifically intervened after his suspension in appointments, hiring, orientation of leaders, or decision-making of institutions that he previously controlled.

If such a thing is proven, then SPAK would be faced with a concrete legal question: has the activity from which the court had suspended it been exercised de facto?

 

Because a minister does not exercise his duty only by signing documents from the minister's office. Administrative power can also be exercised through phone calls, messages, orientations, recommendations for appointments or interventions by subordinates. But for this to be considered a violation of the security measure, concrete evidence of Balluk's actions is needed; the statements of the directors registered by Fiks Fare, taken alone, do not legally prove this.

This is why the Fiks Fare material may also be of interest to SPAK.

Who gave instructions after the suspension? Who proposed names? Were there any communications between Balluk and the leaders of the institutions and, if so, about what?

The answers to these questions would determine whether Balluku has violated the "security measure", and this would force SPAK to impose another, more severe measure, which surprisingly it has not yet done.

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