In an interview for Syri TV, MP Jorida Tabaku stated that justice, in her opinion, should have only one face and one standard. “I don’t like this decision and I attack it, I like it and I don’t comment on it,” Tabaku said, criticizing Edi Rama’s attacks on judges who dared to decide differently from his political will.
Up to this point, the rhetoric sounds fair and even acceptable. But the problem begins when Jorida forgets a small, annoying and repetitive detail: the chairman of her party, Sali Berisha, leaves no stone unturned in throwing stones and arrows at SPAK, Altin Dumani or any judge who makes a decision against him. In the same tone that Tabaku denounces Rama's "pressure" on the justice system, Berisha has been doing the same thing for months – even louder, more intense and, undoubtedly, more threatening.
Thus, when Tabaku speaks of “a single standard,” he seems to be referring to a standard according to the appetite of the day. When Rama criticizes, we have intimidation. When Berisha attacks, we have freedom of speech. When Rama speaks, it is pressure. When Berisha shouts, it is simply “political reaction.” An unprecedented standard of justice with two faces, which seems to be measured with one angle for the opponent and another angle for its political leader.
In the end, what remains from Jorida Tabaku's interview is not principle, but irony: talking about equal justice while remaining silent about a leader who uses the public microphone as a baseball bat against SPAK is a bit like preaching against luxury while becoming part of the oligarchs' advertising campaigns.
