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Does Belinda Balluku's exchange of resignation for immunity matter anymore?
2025-12-17 13:09:22 / IDE
The signing of the document by Altin Dumani requesting the lifting of Belinda Balluku's immunity has put Edi Rama in front of the most important political test of his power: the test of real justice. Not the one articulated in press conferences, but the one measured when SPAK knocks on the door of the most powerful people in the system.
This is no longer a matter for a high-ranking official. It is a direct test for Rama, for his slogan "justice can strike whomever it wants because responsibilities are personal," and for the real relationship between power and the law.
The question circulating in political offices today is brutally simple: Is Balluk's removal from government positions, including that of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, being negotiated as a condition to avoid facing justice?
If Rama accepts a tacit agreement with Balluku, he is not simply protecting a close associate. He is publicly acknowledging that immunity is not a constitutional instrument, but political currency, given and taken according to the interests of the moment.
Rama does not have the luxury of openly clashing with SPAK. SPAK is a constitutional institution and is acting within its powers. Any attempt to block it does not stop the investigation; it simply shifts the conflict to a higher political and diplomatic level.
In this context, the real clash would not be with Altin Dumani or SPAK.
It would be with the United States of America, the main architects and guarantors of the Justice Reform.
For Americans, resignation from office is no substitute for criminal responsibility. Justice is not negotiated or compensated for by political maneuvering. A minister who resigns is not purged; he is simply stripped of power.
If Rama blocks the votes to lift immunity, the message is clear and dangerous: Rama is declaring war on the most trusted institution of Albanians, SPAK. A message that undermines SPAK and undermines Rama’s narrative of “the greatest reform in history.” If, on the contrary, he allows the vote and paves the way for justice, Rama loses a key figure in his government.
Today, it is not only the political fate of Belinda Balluku that is at stake.
This event decides whether the executive branch will accept that justice will be served to the end, even when it knocks on the door of its most powerful and closest people.
History will remember this moment not for the statements, but for the vote.
That vote will show whether resignation can be bought as immunity, or whether, finally, the law is stronger than power.
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