SPAK's request for Balluk's arrest, Rama categorically: We do not authorize it!

2025-12-21 10:42:46 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

SPAK's request for Balluk's arrest, Rama categorically: We do not

Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted again to SPAK's request to the Parliament to lift the immunity of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, making it clear that the majority does not intend to consider it.

Speaking on his podcast "Flasim", Rama appeared surprised by what he described as the "urgency" of prosecutors to seek measures he called "extreme", while questioning the timing and manner of SPAK's action. According to him, the prosecutors should not have approached the Assembly without first waiting for the Constitutional Court to review the case on January 22.

In another ironic speech and lectures on the rule of law, Rama declared that "justice does not run, justice judges," while emphasizing that the governing majority "has no chance" of considering SPAK's request for new measures against Balluk.

The prime minister's stance stands out for its strong contrast with previous statements, when SPAK has investigated or arrested other political figures, including from the ranks of the Socialist Party, cases in which Rama has openly supported the institution, considering it a success of justice reform and one of the "creatures" of the Renaissance.

Rama: I am very curious why the prosecutors who rushed with an impressive speed to address the Parliament for extreme measures in recent days did not take into account that we are first in a face-to-face case in the Constitutional Court on January 22nd, where the highest court of the country must judge on the merits the issue of the antidemocratic measure of suspension of a member of the government at the request of the prosecution.

I raise this question because in any country where justice is not running, but judging, it would wait for the end of the trial for one measure before seeking another measure, because the rule of law is not a place for confrontation between independent powers, nor for the encroachment of one power into the constitutional territory of another.

Today, I do not have the answer, but I will continue to read, I will continue to learn, and I will continue to make all my efforts to better understand the in-depth analysis of the symptoms of brutality in the exercise of judicial power, and I will certainly have my answer to the above in due time.

But in the meantime, as has been made clear in the Mandates Committee in the Assembly, there is no chance that we, the governing and parliamentary majority of this country, will consider the prosecutors' hasty request to authorize new extreme measures, which, even in light of the report of the Council of Europe experts, even in light of the report of the Council of Europe's "torture" Commission, even in light of much else, are indeed to be taken and judged very calmly, but not without once and for all finishing the process that we have opened in the Constitutional Court, for the extreme measure, for the antidemocratic and unconstitutional measure of suspension by the prosecutors who, as if nothing had happened and nothing had happened, came running to request other measures. Justice does not run, justice judges.

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