Prime Minister Edi Rama commented today for the first time on the Constitutional Court's decision on the Balluku case, describing it as a blow to the government and an absurd institutional precedent for Albania.
In his podcast, Rama said that the Constitutional Court "could not find the strength to prevent the government from being taken hostage," underlining that its indecision automatically reinstated the suspension of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy.
According to him, this case makes Albania "for the second time the first example of a global stupidity", a strong formulation that marks the open clash between the executive and the new judiciary.
Rama emphasized that the core of the problem is not the accusation against Balluk, since, as he said, "the minister is not accused of corruption," but the way in which the suspension mechanism works.
He acknowledged that in the current political and media climate, "clarity is a luxury," but added that the government will not back down from this institutional confrontation.
Along these lines, the Prime Minister also announced changes to the Criminal Code regarding suspension from office, calling this measure a "100% Albanian invention of new, immature justice."
"The dismantling of this invention remains a necessity to reassert the executive independence of parliament," Rama declared.
With this stance, the Prime Minister signals that the political and legal battle between the government and the new judiciary has not ended with the Constitutional Court's decision, but is expected to move to the legislative arena.
