Sali Berisha did not spare the Constitutional Court today for indefinitely postponing the decision on the Balluku case. In a press conference, he described this court as "the last den of Albanian thieves."
According to him, the lack of a decision on Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku shows that some members of the Criminal Court are willing to violate the law and the Constitution just to implement, as he said, the orders of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
Berisha said:
"Yesterday proved that the Criminal Court is the last lair of your thieves. In an extreme act of humiliation, those whom the Constitution designates as its guarantors are proving before your eyes that they are the last lair of the narco-state. Those gentlemen and ladies — not all of them, of course — prove that they are willing to trample on the law, the Constitution and morality just to humbly carry out Rama's orders."
However, unlike on other occasions, Berisha did not name the members of the Constitutional Court who he believes are blocking the decision. This silence contrasts with his previous practice, when in the SPAK case or similar decisions of the GJK he has publicly mentioned the prosecutors or judges one by one and name by name.
The reasons for this choice are known to Berisha himself, but they may be related to the influence of the Democratic Party in this court, especially through two members: Sonila Bejtja and Gent Ibrahimi. Both of them have changed their positions in previous decisions whenever they have faced pressure from Berisha — the first because of her connections with the DP, while the second as "told" by him whenever he needed it politically. And today the great thrift for the same reasons.
Finally, Berisha also waded into the debate about salaries, expressing dissatisfaction with why a SPAK prosecutor is paid more than a district prosecutor — a line of argument similar to that previously launched by the prime minister regarding judges' salaries.
