Prime Minister Edi Rama has continued his defense of the suspension of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku. The reaction comes after the acceptance of the Government's lawsuit in the Constitutional Court. In a post on X, Rama writes that the suspension was an unprecedented action in the democratic world.
He underlines that nowhere in a democratic state has a first-instance judge taken such measures against a member of the government, while emphasizing that such an approach constitutes a violation of constitutional principles and interference in the balance of powers.
"Many words are nonsense, find a second case in the world where a prosecutor and a judge - moreover of the first instance - suspend a member of the government! Saying that this is normal, when it has not been seen anywhere, is the same as saying that justice is normal only in Albania", Rama said.
Among other things, he says that he strongly supports the Justice Reform, but described this decision-making as a "childish collapse" of the new justice system, which according to him affects not only the institution that makes the decision, but the entire functioning of government.
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Many words are nonsense, find a second case in the world where a prosecutor and a judge - moreover, a first-instance judge - suspend a member of the government from office!
Telling me that this is so normal, even though it has never been seen, anywhere, in the democratic world, is the same as telling me that justice is only normal in Albania!
Well, despite the fact that from day 1 I have been, am and will be the most unwavering supporter of the Reform and Independence of Justice, this world innovation of our new justice, I cannot call it anything other than one of those falls of a child when he has just learned to walk. With the difference that when a real child falls, he only hurts himself, while when justice slips like this time, it violates constitutional principles, disrupts the balance between independent powers and brutally interferes in the governing process.
Let's be clear:
The high goal of the fight against corruption does not justify the use of any wrong means, and the history of countries that have previously gone down this necessary path teaches us that justifying wrong means for the sake of a greater goal turns the cure with such means into an even greater evil than the disease itself that these means are said to be curing. This lesson should never be forgotten. By anyone.
