After criticizing the judiciary for the Balluk case and the obstruction of SPAK, Prime Minister Edi Rama appeared today at the SP Assembly with a different rhetoric towards the judiciary. Rama said that the judiciary in the country has always been powerless and influenced, adding that the executive branch has now handed over the "sword of judicial power" to the judiciary itself.
"Justice has been put on a bloody and dirty bed. Before, it has never been free nor independent, impartial, no, no. I am sorry to say that for those who demand it from us and for those who accuse us, it has nothing to do with us. We have handed over the sword of judicial power to the judicial power," he said.
But for a judiciary to be free and independent, it must operate without hindrance. Here, Edi Rama's socialist majority showed the opposite, as just a few weeks ago, with a majority of votes in Parliament, it did not vote on SPAK's request to remove the mandate of MP Belinda Balluku.
