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Will the new justice system unite the SP and the DP?
2026-03-15 13:23:44 / IDE
The week just ended is one of the most important and embarrassing that the Socialist Party has gone through since coming to power in 2013. In its 13th year in government, the majority is facing a crossroads with many dilemmas: to frame justice according to its "legal" will, or to allow it to be as it currently functions? This is a dilemma that, in any precedent, should not be solved by the party that has a clear conflict of interest, at least!
In no other case before the request to lift Belinda Balluku's immunity, has there been such a great lack of political arguments from Prime Minister Edi Rama. He talked a lot and said nothing. A mishmash of facts and arguments that has further increased the uncertainty of an unnecessary political protection, so that anyone who is not politically or legally persecuted!
But this protection has raised the alarm in the European Union, fortunately without setting conditions yet. It takes great skill in a situation with many international dilemmas to get the attention of partners!
The new situation brings increased attention from the European Union and a new reality of focus on Albania, making impossible the legal changes declared by the majority to strengthen human rights and combat unjust detention.
The red line has already been set; any step forward, even a small one, would bring a harsh backlash and conditionality from the European Union. Prime Minister Rama has known this cost, and has continued, and is clear that in this situation there is no chance of making the legal changes to reform the new justice system for "good".
But another alarm bell is that, despite the supportive rhetoric, in gestures and actions the Socialist Party is closer than ever to the positions of the Democratic Party: that this justice must be redone and reconceptualized. The leader of the DP, Sali Berisha, declared that it must be redone with the Venice Commission; the Prime Minister says with foreign experts. The common denominator is that justice must be redone! And at no point is there any talk about the real problem of justice, the Guinness record-breaking stock of files. No one mentions that we are the only country where justice is guaranteed only in the afterlife.
Without forgetting that the experience in Albanian politics has shown that, when Sali Berisha and Edi Rama come together, the product is never in the public interest, but entirely in political-personal interest. It is enough to see the legal changes of 2008, where the role of the President was destroyed and the role of the deputy was reduced to a minimum, to the detriment of democracy and the public interest.
SPAK and GjKKO have many problems in the way they operate. It is enough to read in detail the cases of "Erion Veliaj" and "Ilir Meta", where there is unanimity among lawyers that the violations are flagrant, without forgetting other episodes where the new justice system is oriented towards "quick victories" and not towards fair processes. And yet, a qualitative justice system is what we have been missing and we need it more than a government that promises vision in its 13th year of governance.
Chances are that neither of them will change!
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