Prime Minister Edi Rama confirmed during a parliamentary group meeting that Belinda Balluku has submitted her resignation from government positions 3 times, but they have been rejected.
" Balluku submitted his resignation to me when he was accused, when he was suspended, and when the Constitutional Court failed to make a decision, but I rejected him all three times ," Rama said.
In his speech to the deputies, the Prime Minister said that administration employees are not cannon fodder, nor targets for prosecutors to fill their files and CVs.
" Arrest warrants are being distributed as if they were wedding invitations. A model administration employee, who has been battling cancer for 5 years, with no connection to tenders, is being arrested. What is this being done for, what does this mean ," said the Head of Government.
Rama considered the changes to the Criminal Code as unrelated to the Belinda Balluku case. Rama said that no one should think that they have both the power and the authority to attack this ruling majority.
"The spirit of the Constitution and the fundamental orientations of the Constitution are not enough, the practices of all the countries that we resemble are not enough, then an article must be made with all the definitions, function by function, so that there is no longer any possibility of interpretation."
This is the reason why we are making this change. Whoever links it to the specific case is wrong, the specific case has its own path, it has nothing to do with the suspension. But the suspension is unacceptable, and for this reason we will deal with the suspension in order to reject, with the will of the majority in the assembly, interference in the territory of the executive branch.
"No one should think that they have both the stone and the nut in their hands to hit this governing majority. Just as no one should think that this measure, or other measures to come, have to do with our hesitation to support the independence of justice without reservation," said Rama.
While not sparing his attacks on justice, Rama said that in one district, a judge issued 33 arrest warrants and placed them in pre-trial detention, forgetting to arrest only himself.
" We have such an independent justice system that a judge issues 33 arrest warrants and forgets without arresting himself! " he said.
While stating that the Criminal Code is not made to take away freedom, but to guarantee freedom, Rama said that society is not guided by how to take away people's freedom.
" The void is in the brains of those who did not provide direction based on the spirit of the Constitution and the model of separation of powers across the planet."
Of course, when I say the gap, I do not mean specific individuals, but the weak democratic culture and rule of law that Albania has due to tradition. What makes the suspension by a prosecutor and judge in a preliminary hearing before the trial of a member of the government cabinet unacceptable is the fact that the suspension does not affect the person.
Suspension violates the function. The function that the head of the Law Commission brought to your attention as part of this initiative group for change. These are functions that cannot be implemented without the person.
"It is not just an individual's work that is suspended, but the work of the institution. That ministry no longer has the capacity to propose anything to the Council of Ministers. That should have been enough to close an absurd debate and prevent 100 people from jumping after a fool who threw a stone into the river ," Rama said.
Per lesh do te shkoni te gjithe si Parti, sepse jeni Parti shume e korruptuar.