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2026-10-01 15:27:04Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA FILIP ÇAKULI

In Albania, we seem to have invented a new court: the Bedroom Court. There is no Constitution, no prosecutor, no evidence. There is a phone, a video, and a crowd that gives the verdict before the investigation even begins. But an intimate video does not become a public issue just because one of the people involved is a public figure.

The bedroom is not a state office.

The first questions are legal: Who recorded it? Who published it? Why? Was there blackmail? These require evidence, not conjecture.

Then comes the political question: does what happened have anything to do with the exercise of public office? This is where the line is drawn.

A politician does not give up his private life when he takes office. However, if private behavior is related to corruption, conflict of interest, abuse of power, coercion or fraud in the exercise of his office, then the private affects the public.

And that's where morality comes in. Because political morality is not about controlling a politician's bedroom. It's about whether his behavior matches the trust he demands from the citizen.

This is why law and morality cannot replace each other.

The court asks: Is there a criminal offense?

Morality asks: Is the behavior worthy of the trust this figure demands?

Politics asks: Does this damage public trust?

A “no” answer from the court is not automatically a “yes” answer from morality. And a negative moral judgment does not automatically turn behavior into a crime.

The classic example is Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. The relationship was acknowledged by Clinton as inappropriate, while the American institutional debate itself focused on whether the private matter had crossed into the territory of public conduct, especially through testimony and allegations of obstruction of justice.

So it wasn't just a question of what Clinton had done in her private life. It was a question of what a president had done and said when faced with public responsibility.

This is the difference.

In ancient Rome, Pompeia, the wife of Julius Caesar, was accused of an inappropriate relationship and was found not guilty at trial. But from this story remained the famous idea and saying “it is not enough that you are innocent, but you are Caesar’s wife”. That Caesar’s wife had to be “above suspicion”.

Today, this may not be a legal standard. But it is a strong metaphor for politics: law requires evidence, morality requires character, politics lives by faith.

Therefore, in the case of intimate videos, there should be no confusion between them.

Who recorded it and who published it is a legal matter.

If there was blackmail, it's a matter of evidence.

If privacy was violated, it's a matter of personal rights.

If the behavior is related to power, it is a matter of public responsibility.

And if that behavior affects the trust of citizens, then we have entered the territory of political morality.

Because a public figure should not be judged for every bedroom secret. But neither can they demand that every consequence of their behavior, when it affects public trust, be hidden behind the door of privacy.

The law may say: “There is no crime.”

Morality may say: “Faith is lost.”

Both can be true simultaneously.

And this is the paradox that intimate videos expose: a court can close a file, but politics does not end with a court decision. Because the law decides whether someone should be punished.

The public decides whether to still trust them. And public trust, unlike a video on a phone, has no “delete” button.

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