
The head of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, has reacted to the behavior of the head of government, Edi Rama, who, according to him, has taken the initiative to protect his deputy Belinda Balluku, who was taken under investigation by SPAK and suspended from duty by decision of the GJKKO.
According to Bardhi, Balluku is using Rama and the Council of Ministers as her lawyers to request the annulment of an individual court decision against her, or to request through them the suspension of the effects of the court decision.
Full reaction:
For the first time in the history of Albania, the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers have intervened institutionally to request the annulment and suspension of a court decision that imposes personal security measures individually on a person. Nowhere, in any democratic country, has it happened that the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers have been institutionally invested in an individual case to impose a personal security measure, whether of a coercive or preventive nature.
Without any doubt, the defendant herself has every right to pursue legal avenues for her defense, including appealing the court decision to impose a restraining order, starting with the Court of Appeals - the Supreme Court - the Constitutional Court. But it never happens that a defendant uses the Prime Minister/Council of Ministers as a lawyer to request the annulment of an individual court decision against her, or to request through them the suspension of the effects of the court decision.
This is a pure and unprecedented act of institutional political protection from justice. This is a clear political message of cementing the culture of impunity. This is an act that proves that Edi Rama, in the name of the principle of "separation of powers", seeks to declare the Council of Ministers independent of the obligation to correctly implement the law. He seeks to put pressure on justice, in the hope that he will take the Constitutional Court itself, which exists as a guarantee of constitutionality and not impunity, off the constitutional tracks.
It is clear that this movement has only political effects, more precisely, it is a tool of pressure/political message, and does not aim for a legal solution.
Therefore, Edi Rama's request, which only aims to give the mafia message to the justice bodies that the defendant Belinda Balluku is not like all other defendants, but enjoys special political/institutional protection from the Prime Minister/Council of Ministers, deserves only contempt, as an anti-democratic, unconstitutional act, especially from the justice bodies themselves, including the Constitutional Court, which is facing the test of protecting the right to a full, inviolable, comprehensive, unhindered investigation of the investigative bodies. This is an important moment in the institutional life of the country to prove that the judicial power does not depend on the special status that the executive power gives to particular defendants, and that everyone is equal before the law.