Constitutional Court lifts Balluku's suspension, Rama: An unprecedented precedent has been closed
2025-12-14 09:54:56
TiranaPost
Prime Minister Edi Rama has commented on his podcast "Flasim" on the decision of the Constitutional Court, which reinstated Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku and decided that the case will be reviewed on its merits at the end of January.
According to Rama, this decision put an end to an unusual precedent, where representatives of the judiciary had assumed powers that belonged to the executive and legislative branches.
"The Constitutional Court lifted the suspension of the Deputy Prime Minister and decided to judge the case on the merits at the end of January. In legal terms, a unique precedent in the world was eliminated and the highest court of the country rejected an Albanian brutality in the interpretation of the law, which struck at the democratic organization of the state.
Meanwhile, in the inter-institutional aspect, this unconstitutional and anti-democratic surprise, where a prosecutor and a judge took over the powers of the Prime Minister, the President, and the Parliament, thereby overwhelming the state and turning a legal process into a partisan trial outside the framework of the law, necessarily requires an equally inter-institutional reflection.
Not just on this case, but in general on the disturbing symptoms of the irresponsible exercise of the independence of the new judicial power, making, in more than one case, the cure more harmful than the disease we are fighting together.
"This flash did not come out of the blue and it did not come alone, unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, because in parallel with the unconstitutional suspension of a minister, another Albanian-style brutality emerged, this time, not thanks to a single prosecutor's office and judge, but thanks to two associations of judges in Albania, with the opening of a trial by judges to increase their salaries," said Prime Minister Edi Rama.
