Rama: Balluk's suspension creates a dangerous precedent, complaining is not pressure
2025-12-07 10:20:40
TiranaPost
Prime Minister Edi Rama has commented on his weekly podcast "Flasim" on the decision to suspend Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Belinda Balluku.
He emphasized that appealing to the Constitutional Court does not constitute pressure, but assessed that the way the court and the prosecution have acted constitutes a dangerous precedent of interference in the executive branch.
"The appeal to the Constitutional Court is not a political battle or pressure, but an institutional battle, a fundamental battle for the protection of the boundaries between powers and the non-taking of the competencies of the Prime Minister and the government by a judge and a prosecutor.
A threatening precedent for democracy and completely unknown in Europe and the democratic world. It is not a suspension, but a subjugation of the executive that brings consequences after consequences," said Rama.
