In a document of over 170 pages, which is supposed to be a snapshot of the health of Albanian justice for the year 2025, the High Judicial Council (HJC) has achieved a new record: to speak at length without saying anything about what threatens the system more than anything else, political pressure. While the year 2025 was characterized by harsh rhetoric, direct attacks on the judiciary and political labeling from both sides of politics, the HJC has chosen the "ostrich policy".
Unlike SPAK or judges' associations, which in their reports emphasize the risk of intimidation of judges, the Supreme Court of Kosovo is content with only four press statements in defense of the dignity of judges throughout the year, which it classifies as reactions to "media attacks", completely ignoring the political source of these attacks.
This report demonstrates an institution that is more concerned about "cybersecurity" and "filing records" than about the integrity of judges in the face of pressures coming from the offices of power.
While Albanian politics were shaking the foundations of the courts, from Rama's nominal attack on judges to Berisha's wild statements about them, the High Judicial Council did not see it reasonable to seek the attention of the Assembly.
The KLGJ proudly reports that exactly 12,937,316 sheets have been digitized. It seems that counting every letter is a higher priority than counting the political attacks that seek to dictate what is written on those letters.
The Supreme Court complains that out of the 9.3 billion lek requested, "only" 6.8 billion were given. A real financial drama that apparently makes it impossible to buy a pencil with which to write the word "political pressure" in the report.
The institution worries about hackers who could steal data, while the real "hackers" of the system, politicians who enter judicial processes through screens and public statements, are considered neither a virus nor malware.
The report is filled with terms like "WR indicator", "CR indicator" and "DT indicator". The KLGJ prefers to speak in the language of European technical codes, where the term "political blackmail" never needs to be translated.
