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SPAK filed a request for authorization in the Balluk case with the Parliament about two months ago, while Prime Minister Edi Rama had addressed the Constitutional Court with an appeal, regarding a decision of the GJKKO, regarding her suspension from government functions...
The Council of Mandates and Immunities will meet today to decide on the review of SPAK's request for Belinda Balluku, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, who is suspended from duty.
SPAK has requested authorization from the Assembly to proceed further with Balluk's case, while there is a clash between the majority on one side and the Special Prosecution on the other, regarding the procedure followed in the decision to suspend her from government functions.
The matter remains to be reviewed between the parties, where on the one hand SPAK prosecutors must answer questions that the deputies may have, while Balluk's lawyers will present their arguments. But this is not expected to happen in today's session, where the parties must first agree on when the case will be reviewed on its merits.
Therefore, it is expected that at today's meeting the Mandates Council will consider a date for the meeting where the decision on SPAK's request will be made, i.e. whether or not her immunity will be lifted and whether the Assembly will authorize SPAK for a preventive security measure (prison arrest, house arrest, or home search) for the suspended Deputy Prime Minister.
SPAK filed a request for authorization in the Balluk case with the Assembly about two months ago, while Prime Minister Edi Rama had addressed the Constitutional Court with an appeal, regarding a decision of the GJKKO, to suspend her from government functions. The Constitutional Court was unable to reach a decision because its 8 members were divided 4 by 4, i.e. without being able to create a majority, causing the GJKKO decision to remain in force.
The Constitutional Court's decision has not yet been made public, which means that this could be a reason for the deputies, members of the Council of Mandates and Immunities, to ask for more time. The Constitutional Court has 30 days to announce the decision, which means that legally the deadline is until the first week of March, given that February 6 was the last date when the members of the Court declared the 4-4 division, and gave their arguments.
Earlier, the majority members of this Council linked the review of SPAK's request to the Prime Minister's appeal to the Constitutional Court, stating that the Court should have expressed its opinion first and then proceeded with the request of the Special Prosecution.
This stance of the Socialists was interpreted by the opposition as an attempt to drag out the issue and exceed the deadlines for reviewing the SPAK request, which has a validity of 3 months and if there is no review, it must be repeated by the Special Prosecution Office.
The opposition is expected to request a decision-making process as soon as possible at today's meeting, while SPAK has filed its request at the end of December 2025, along with a series of evidence and documents, which are considered investigative secrets and MPs, members of the Council, are not allowed to make them public.
On the other hand, the Socialists, based on the public statements of Prime Minister Edi Rama that the issue does not have any urgency to be reviewed, may request that the Constitutional Court's decision be awaited, in order to see the full arguments of the members divided in favor and against the Head of Government's appeal, as to whether or not a Court has the right to suspend a member of the Council of Ministers from office.
In parallel, the majority has undertaken an initiative to amend Article 242 of the Criminal Code, on which SPAK has focused in the case of Belinda Balluku, demanding her suspension from government functions. /Pamphlet/
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