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Judges' salaries, Artan Hoxha: Berisha showed that he was in agreement with Rama
2026-02-02 21:11:47 / POLITIKË
The debate on judges' salaries showed that Sali Berisha was in the same line as Prime Minister Edi Rama. This was stated by journalist Artan Hoxha, in Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN, bringing to attention the statement of the democratic leader who admitted that the salary pyramid is the exclusive prerogative of the government. According to him, the government itself has overturned the salary pyramid by setting much higher salaries for GJKKO judges and SPAK prosecutors than for the head of state.
"When the debate comes to this part of the judges' salaries here, I listened carefully today and Berisha was almost in agreement with Rama. It is the government's exclusivity, he said. The government sets the salary pyramid, not the judiciary, but Mr. Berisha said it is Rama and there and I agree, he broke the pyramid himself. Why? Because from the highest salary, which is the head of state, it was overturned with a special decision and the salary of the judges of the Special Court and the salary of the SPAK prosecutors were set, which is two to three times higher than that of the head of state. This overturned the scheme and today we are faced with this fact. But this is still a very minor issue for us because Rama seems to be trying to save about 37 million euros. Think that he has the money in the budget section" , Hoxha said on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN.
According to him, the real problem is not just SPAK and the Special Court, but the state of the entire justice system, with a shortage of judges, a fivefold increase in the backlog of files, and citizens waiting for years for justice.
"I ask the question first, so that you can claim that justice is being attacked, we are at the point where do we have justice? Do we have justice? SPAK and the special court are simply instruments of an entire system. We are in a situation where 10 years after we made that famous vote, today we have tested them and what are the effects of this that we have called the new justice and the effects today have come that neither the opposition nor the majority can hide. The stock of files has increased fivefold. We have halved the number of judges, we have eliminated the courts of appeal. We have left only one in Tirana, the general prosecutor complains in the report they make every year in parliament. I miss 40% of the republic's prosecutors, he says. Those citizens in Ersekë, in Bajram Curri, in Pukë, in Skrapar, they don't care what he does at the door of SPAK. They care about the trouble he has there at the door of his house and his trouble is not the trouble of a factory. A factory for him is a cow and he "That's the problem, they stole his cow," he emphasized on Off the Record with Andrea Dangli on A2 CNN.
The journalist also emphasized that despite the media hype, final decisions and the confiscation of assets of senior officials are lacking, leaving the justice reform with partial results.
"If we look at it as propaganda with the propaganda plan, we are fine. So, we have done it, but if we come to the decisions, we are lame. Only Fredi Bejleri finished quickly and left for Strasbourg, but Fredi Bejleri also became an MEP from the Fier prison. So the work of justice is measured by the results and unfortunately the results are not just perception. The perception is that we have caught them all, we have taken them to prison. The thing is that we have convicted them, what have we convicted them for and how much wealth have you seized from corruption. The confiscated assets so far are shining or or the vast majority are mainly from organized crime, but the money of high-level officials, politicians, we have not seen anything in the exhaust pipes, sir. No, we found it with the cleaner, we could not find out who had that money. We invoiced the cleaner for the prison and this was what the judges and prosecutors did before. The thing is how are you going to get up there to "The high level and where you will catch them and where you will return this money to the citizens. Because this is what the new justice system was created for," he added.
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