In a video released in response to criticism he received for the messages sent to the GJK, Prime Minister Edi Rama has once again called the GJKKO's decision on Balluku an interference of the judiciary in the executive branch. Rama claims that extending the judiciary's arm beyond the dividing line with the executive would create a dangerous precedent.
As for the critics, he said that he does not pressure anyone, but is a party to the process and has the legitimacy to speak on this issue.
"I have appealed, of course as prime minister and not as Edi Rama, and of course not for an individual, a minister who in this case is also deputy prime minister, but for the principle. For the principle of not undermining the balance between powers. For the principle of non-interference of an independent power in the composition of the independent executive power. For the principle of not taking the powers of the prime minister and the president from a prosecutor and a judge.
If the suspension of a minister by a prosecutor and a judge were today legitimized as a legitimate right of justice, then extending the judiciary's arm beyond the dividing line with the executive and with Albanian political life itself would create a dangerous and threatening precedent.
"It is an institutional judicial battle to prevent what the Venice Commission considers an impermissible violation of the dividing line between powers. So, I am a party and I speak as a party, I do not pressure anyone and I do not speak about a judicial process that is taking place somewhere and has no connection to my role," said Rama.
The Prime Minister also issued another message to the Constitutional Court, regarding the decision it must make.
"I can only repeat my wish that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Albania spares the Republic of Albania the invention of a totally unprecedented innovation in the history of European democratic justice," he said.
