FLASH
Shkruar nga Mero Baze
All this aggression against the legal rights of political defendants - including Ilir Meta - for their premature arrests, has in fact created a new pole of power in Albania: the Republic of Prosecutors...
Prime Minister Edi Rama must decide whether he will take up the battle himself regarding what is considered an overstepping of constitutional boundaries by the GJKKO and SPAK in the case of the suspension of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, or whether he will follow his previous rhetoric of letting the judiciary act as an independent power.
The latter has brought a number of political benefits in relation to the European Union integration process, increasing the authority of SPAK and not opening battles for many of the clear legal violations that have been encountered in this process.
For European bureaucrats, these are irrelevant, as for them the political outcome of SPAK is important and not the legal culture that prevails in Albania. But for Albania, both are important.
True to his rhetoric that he does not interfere with justice, the mayor of Tirana was arrested in his office, without charges against him, but on suspicions about his wife at an NGO event. So obvious was the personal motivation of the prosecutors that for every attempt to defend the violations they committed against Veliaj, including the verbal insults in the courtroom, they added three more charges per week, most of them without legal basis, without criminal facts and without factual reality.
The same thing happened to Ilir Beqaj. Involved in the accusation of the sterilization concession - one of the best concessions made in the field of health, which has saved thousands of lives - suddenly, at the request of the court and beyond the prosecution, it was requested that he be considered part of a criminal group together with the deputy minister. This was a step away from the prime minister's office, since in fact the concession is the government's policy, not Beqaj's or the deputy minister's.
Now it has knocked on the doors of the Prime Minister's Office. Belinda Balluku has been suspended from office by court order and banned from leaving the country as she is considered a defendant. The decision is debatable, as SPAK has bypassed parliament by imposing security measures that violate immunity, such as travel bans or prison arrest. There is debate here about both a serious violation of government immunity and direct interference in the executive branch.
That's pretty much what they did with Veliaj: since he had no immunity, they took him straight to prison for 9 months before filing charges. And then, through Ulsi, they implemented a special criminal regime to physically lynch him - a regime that still continues without much explanation from the government.
All this aggression against the legal rights of political defendants - including Ilir Meta - for their premature arrests has in fact created a new pole of power in Albania: the Republic of Prosecutors.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has accepted this reality and has not taken any legal initiative to curb some phenomena that are more about politics than justice. This is the premature arrest of high-ranking officials for corruption or suspension from office, as happened in this case. Apparently, he enjoyed the support for Albania in Western chancelleries more and the impetus that this climate gave to the pace of Albania's accession to the EU, opening all the chapters.
Now, a new verbal battle like the one that started the process against Veliaj makes no sense. The Prime Minister must maintain the independence of his power and if he finds a constitutional crisis, he must address the Constitutional Court himself on behalf of the government. This is a battle that he must wage. There is no need for television debates or attacks in newspapers. Either he acts himself, or he continues to defend the rhetoric so far: justice has its work, he has his own.
A statement by the Constitutional Court on this issue is one more step in the legal culture that we need to build to resolve the crisis between institutions. They must speak out quickly and responsibly, as an institution that guarantees the constitutional order of the Republic.
Until then, the government should implement the court's decision and let the crisis be faced in institutions and not in public debates, to show each other who is stronger.
If it were Sali Berisha, he would have solved it in five minutes: he would have declared a coup, as there are signs of it, he would have called Duman a "boulevard villain", he would have set up an investigative commission and dismissed him.
We know that time and it should not be returned to, even though there were many "successes" with that method.
Now the only way is a legal battle and a clear formulation by the Constitutional Court about this crisis - a formulation that will also apply to the future.
Je me te vertete,me djall se vete djalli, Z.Baze. Keta shushunja kane 35 vjet qe ia pine gjakun ketij populli, e sikterrosen nga syte kembet dhe ti ben avokatin e te drejtes se hajduteve per tu gjykuar te lire. Ti je perfituesi me i madh i hajnise me sistemin e gjobave qe e instalove ti si model ne Shqiperi.Ligji duhet te veproje me gjithe forcen per te sekuestruar cdo pasuri qe e kane ne menyre te paligjshme te gjithe te korruptuarit e ketijvendi cfaredo niveli qofshin.Bastarde te ndyre!