FLASH
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Prime Minister Edi Rama reacted today for the first time after the Constitutional Court's decision to reinstate the government's number two, Belinda Balluku.
Prime Minister Edi Rama has spoken for the first time following the Constitutional Court's decision to temporarily reinstate Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku.
In the "Flasim" podcast, Rama said that with this decision, the country's highest court rejected an all-Albanian brutality in the interpretation of the law, which, according to him, had severely damaged the democratic organization of the state.
Rama stated that the Constitutional Court stopped an unconstitutional action, where the powers of the Prime Minister, the President and the Parliament were taken by a prosecutor and a judge, turning a legal process into a trial of a political nature and outside the legal framework.
The Prime Minister also called for a broad inter-institutional reflection, emphasizing that this case should be seen as part of a broader problem related to the irresponsible exercise of the independence of the new justice system.
Rama further harshly criticized Albania's two judges' associations for opening a legal process aimed at increasing their salaries.
He described this as a usurpation of the powers of the government and parliament and as a clear violation of the constitutional balance between powers.
Rama said that the demands for salary increases reach considerable figures, around 1,600 euros more per month for ordinary courts and prosecutors' offices and up to 3,100 euros more per month for the Special Court and SPAK, which, according to him, constitutes a dangerous precedent for the functioning of the state and the management of the public budget.
"The Constitutional Court lifted the suspension of the Deputy Prime Minister and decided to judge the case on its merits at the end of January. In legal terms, a unique precedent in the world was eliminated and an all-Albanian brutality in the interpretation of the law, which struck the democratic organization of the state, was rejected by the highest court of the country. Meanwhile, in the inter-institutional aspect, this unconstitutional and anti-democratic surprise, where a prosecutor and a judge took over the powers of the prime minister, the president, and the parliament, crowding the state and turning a legal process into a partisan trial outside the framework of the law, necessarily requires an equally inter-institutional reflection. Not just on this case, but in general on the disturbing symptoms of the irresponsible exercise of the independence of the new judicial power, making in more than one case the cure more harmful than the disease that we are fighting together.
This flash did not come out of the blue and it did not come alone, unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, because in parallel with the unconstitutional suspension of a minister, another all-Albanian brutality was revealed this time not thanks to a single prosecutor and judge, but thanks to two associations of judges in Albania, with the opening of a trial by judges to increase their salaries. Yes, yes, you heard it right, the judges want to increase their own salaries. Not for the first time unfortunately, but for the second time. "They want to take back the powers of the government and parliament, showing not just the elected officials, but the voters themselves, that above their will and beyond the constitutional boundaries between powers stand they, the black platoons of Albania, with the supreme power of the hammer of justice now independent of politics and that hammer that the Republic has entrusted to them for its high interest of equal justice for all, they can use whenever they want to forcefully open the coffers of the state budget and to increase their salaries. And how much? Respectively 1600 euros plus per month for the ordinary courts and prosecutors' offices and 3100 euros plus per month for the special court and SPAK ," Rama said.
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