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BIRN: SP indefinitely delays decision-making on Balluk's immunity
2025-12-19 21:49:03 / POLITIKË
After 5 hours of meeting, dominated by a procedural debate between the opposition and the majority on whether or not to allow the media into the meeting room, the Speaker of the Assembly, Niko Peleshi, announced the adjournment of the meeting without setting any date for its continuation.
To defend SPAK's request before the Assembly, the meeting was attended by the chairman Klodian Braho, the prosecutor in the case Dritan Premçi, and the prosecutor Dorina Bejko, while the defendant Balluku was absent, represented by lawyer Ardian Kalija.
Sources from the closed-door meeting told BIRN that Balluk's lawyer and the Socialist MPs requested several weeks of time to familiarize themselves with the evidence brought by the prosecution, while SPAK prosecutors considered 3 to 5 days sufficient.
The council agreed that a USB device containing thousands of pages of evidence from the investigative file against Balluk be copied and distributed to council members.
The chairman of the Democratic Party parliamentary group, Gazment Bardhi, a member of this Council, told the media that the Socialists were acting with a premeditated scenario to delay the Parliament's decision-making to authorize the arrest of Balluk.
He accused the Speaker of the Assembly of violating the rules and acting contrary to previous practice for lifting the immunity of a deputy, when the Council did not have more than 72 hours to draft the relevant report for the plenary session.
"They became so ridiculous that they requested that the next meeting be held in a month, around January 20, while the 3 prosecutors made it clear that this is an urgent matter and any delay could jeopardize the evidence and intimidation of witnesses," Bardhi told the media.
The Assembly's regulations have provided for a two-week deadline for the completion of this procedure and the passage for voting in the next parliamentary session after the meeting of the Mandates Council, but the Socialist Party is trying to use the Assembly's winter recess in favor of postponing it and resuming work in the new parliamentary session in January.
Peleshi did not respond to BIRN's questions about when he would call the next meeting and whether he would apply previous parliamentary practice in these cases.
In the report released accompanying the file with evidence against Balluk, the Special Prosecution Office argues that it is seeking her arrest, as there is evidence that she has threatened a witness, a subordinate of hers, and that she risks destroying evidence. SPAK says that Balluk is already under investigation for the concession of the Thumanë-Kashar road, in addition to the tenders for the Ring Road for 2021 and the Llogara tunnel./ BIRN
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