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Former Socialist MP stings Balluku: The government should accompany flagrant corruption cases with measures and criminal charges! Senior officials should be stripped of their immunity for 10 years
2026-06-22 14:18:32 / POLITIKË
Former SP MP Petro Koçi has reacted to the nightly protests on "Dëshmorët e Kombit" Boulevard, describing them as a phenomenon that must be treated with seriousness and political maturity.
In a Facebook post, Koçi also addresses the need for internal reforms in the Socialist Party. While criticizing Belinda Balluku, he says that people under criminal investigation should be removed from their delegated functions.
According to him, flagrant cases of corruption should be accompanied by criminal charges.
" Meanwhile, the government cannot leave the fight against corruption solely in the hands of SPAK. Flagrant cases of abuse must be accompanied by public administrative measures and criminal charges."
"The SP itself needs to replace the scheme of concentrating power from the hands of delegates to the elected officials of the grassroots structures. And of course, to exempt from delegation every individual under criminal prosecution ," Koçi's reaction states.
He also called for the further strengthening of SPAK, the lifting of immunity for senior officials for a certain period, reform of the electoral system to guarantee fairer representation, as well as stronger measures against the involvement of public administration in electoral processes.
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While publicly expressing support for SPAK's recent actions against organized crime that has spread its tentacles of money laundering into construction, land acquisition and appropriation, etc., I cannot help but react again to the nightly protests on Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard.
Most of the participants there are idealists, dissatisfied with the administration and missionaries for purely public issues. Of course, the political fuel comes mainly from the right side, sidelined by Sali Berisha, from all kinds of achievers who see chances to be promoted in the future in the Assembly. There is also no shortage of leaders of social media parties who make us like political journalists with cell phones in hand.
The National Front's slogan "Albania for Albanians, death to traitors" confirms the attempt to use the protest as a revenge of the right against the left.
But the protest of idealists must be used as popular energy to develop a guaranteed institutional democracy, strengthen the fight against corruption through the empowerment of SPAK, and establish standards for equality and contemporary social solidarity.
The SP does not need submission, but serious reflection that includes constitutional and legal reform at these points:
1-Cancellation of the constitutional amendments of April 21, 2008 proposed by Sali Berisha that turned the Republic from a parliamentary to a prime ministerial one.
This would create breathing space and oxygen for parliament's control over the executive.
2- Legal strengthening of the functionality and efficiency of SPAK accompanied by a special law that removes the immunity of senior officials for at least the next 10 years.
3-Design and approval of an electoral system that guarantees pluralism and representative equality in relation to votes at the national level.
4-Strict supervision and penalization for the involvement of state administration in electoral processes.
5- Undertaking a practical reform in the functioning and results of the Cadastre, where a long-awaited solution would be the transfer of the competence for issuing certified property certificates to notaries.
Meanwhile, the government cannot leave the fight against corruption solely in the hands of SPAK. Flagrant cases of abuse must be accompanied by public administrative measures and criminal charges.
The SP itself needs to replace the scheme of concentrating power from the hands of delegates to those elected by the grassroots structures.
And of course, to exempt from delegation any individual under criminal prosecution.
Finally, I emphasize that protests should be treated with maturity, neither with hostility, nor with naivety.
Let its clean part serve as an investment for more democracy and not simply for changing the seats of power.
Only the majority and the people benefit from democracy.
Only in this way would the protest promote, rather than hinder, the European integration that is knocking at the door.
Even a struggle for sovereignty simply for power in the case of protest would be just a new form of corruption!
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