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Law change/ Rama in a "personal" battle against SPAK
2026-02-15 17:51:59 / POLITIKË
Edi Rama has uttered one of the most untrue statements of his political life when, in the weekly monologue of the podcast "Flasim", he said that protecting Belinda Balluku is not a matter of personality, but a matter of principle.
Ostensibly to preserve the principle of separation of powers, he has declared that he will propose to parliament a change in the law, whereby the suspension of ministers would henceforth become impossible. "I, together with the Chairman of the group Taulant Balla and the Chairman of the Laws Committee, Ulsi Manja, with our three signatures, will file the initiative to immediately address the gap in question," he declared, adding that he will do this before the parliamentary group of the Socialists.
What the Prime Minister means is the amendment of Article 242 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which until now prohibited suspension from office only for elected persons. According to the proposal of Rama, Balla, Manja and henceforth, the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Members of the Government Cabinet, the Ombudsman, the Head of the Supreme Audit Office and the Governor of the Bank of Albania will also have a shield.
So, the new proposal, which came as a result of the debate over the suspension of Belinda Balluku, aims to prevent the courts from henceforth "freezing" a minister or even the prime minister himself from office.
And it is precisely here that it becomes clear that the game that Rama sells as simply principled is in fact only personal. If it were as the prime minister claims, the socialist majority could pursue the battle in the constitutional courts, could make legal changes to the Criminal Code as it is doing now, but it would not refuse to obey SPAK's request to lift the deputy prime minister's immunity, a process that had nothing to do with either of the other two.
Meanwhile, Edi Rama himself engaged in Balluk's defense. He ordered Niko Pelesh to postpone the review of the lifting of immunity to the Greek calendars. He himself declared more than once that "until the legal resolution is addressed, there is no urgency to address the request that SPAK made after the suspension measure was lifted", entering a collision course with the EU that came out with statements that this process should not be dragged out. He ordered the socialists to abandon the long lethargic silence and go on the screens to defend the deputy prime minister.
All this has only a personal background. First, the head of government sends a message to justice, that you cannot take soldiers from my flock without permission. If Belinda Balluku's political history has ended, if her power has fallen and none of the people who previously "solved" her problems come close to her, Rama is using her personal case to send a signal: that justice cannot do whatever it wants.
Secondly, as foreseen in the three-signature project of the amendment to Article 242, it clearly shows that SPAK and the GJKKKO are prohibited from suspending Rama himself from office on a bad day.
So now the prime minister is taking measures so that if someone in the future, driven by internal forces or inspired from outside, can find a way for justice to prevent him from exercising power for a long time, this path will be closed forever. Rama is simply calculating his future fate, although in public he sells this as a battle not of personal, but of principle . /Lapsi.al
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