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The Prime Minister ironized the way SPAK presented the file against Balluk to the Parliament.
At the end-of-year conference, Prime Minister Edi Rama was directly asked about his stance on the issue related to Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku and SPAK's request to lift her immunity. Rama said that the Socialist Party has not acted as anyone's advocate and emphasized that the case has come to the door of parliament, so the Assembly has the obligation to review it independently.
" Neither I nor anyone else has entered into the content of the case. Have you heard a single word of advocacy on our part about the specific case? ", Rama said. He emphasized that the Mandates Council is not a "notary's office", but a structure that must analyze the demands of justice and express itself on them as a "quasi-court".
The Prime Minister made fun of the way SPAK presented the file against Balluku. " These 16,000 pages have provoked me since day one. If I were in the Mandates Council, I would tell them : ' Get up, leave and come back with a file for the parliament'. You cannot come here with 16,000 pages that you call evidence. Contracts, studies, the entire archive of the ministry have been included. There is no way they are the products of an investigation ," Rama said.
-Mr. Prime Minister, for years you have set a standard where you have said that the Socialist Party does not turn into a law firm for those who have problems with justice. What made you change this stance when it comes to Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, and now that the socialist members of the Mandates Council have 16,000 pages at their disposal that SPAK has sent along with the report. Are you convinced that this evidence is sufficient to fulfill the request that SPAK has put on the table?
Rama: Now, neither I nor anyone else has entered into the content of the case. Have you heard a single word of advocacy on our part about the specific case? This case is different from other cases because it came to us. When the case comes to our door, the legislative power, or not, must express itself. The Mandates Council is not a notary's office, it is a quasi-court, it is called. And the parliament does not notarize. It is not a notary. It receives the prosecutor's requests, it sees them.
These 16 thousand pages have provoked me since day one. If I were in the Mandates Council, I would tell those who came, 'Get up, leave and come back with a file for the Albanian parliament, for the deputies'. You cannot come here with 16,000 pages that you call evidence. Do you know what those 16,000 pages are? They are 16,000 pages where contracts, studies, the entire archive of the ministry have been included. There is no way they are the products of an investigation.
The case comes to Parliament, and the case before it went to Parliament, was brutally introduced into the territory of the executive branch, a scandalous request for suspension. Now I can say it with all my heart. We have searched everywhere if there is a second one. There is not. It has not happened in Europe or anywhere in the world. For a judge and a prosecutor to gather and say; this is what we decided. We took a stand.
We will also take a stand in Parliament. Albania is the most scandalous country in the Council of Europe, I don't say that, but the figures do. We are different from others, for imprisoning people without trial. The number of people who are in Albania today without being convicted, who in the sense of the Constitution and European conventions, is greater than the number of those who are convicted. Do you know how many of them there are? You don't know! The pots have the word prison, theft, thief, like salt, pepper, and sauce in every kind of dish
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