Prime Minister Edi Rama said on his podcast Flasim that the Constitutional Court\u2019s decision to lift the suspension of Belinda Balluku eliminated a dangerous precedent in which a judge attempted to take over the powers of the government.<\/p>\n
Referring to the new justice system, Rama said there is a need for inter-institutional reflection, as he addressed the request by the judges\u2019 association to increase their salaries\u2014an effort which, according to him, once again represents an attempt to seize competencies and interfere with the state budget.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026Unfortunately, not for the first time but for the second time, they want to once again take over the powers of the government and parliament, showing not only the elected officials but the voters themselves that above their will and beyond the constitutional boundaries between powers, stand they\u2014the black robes of Albania\u2014with the supreme power of the hammer of justice, now independent from politics. And that hammer, which the Republic has entrusted to them in its highest interest of equal justice for all, they can use whenever they wish to violently pry open the state budget and raise their own salaries\u2014by as much as an additional \u20ac1,600 per month for ordinary courts and prosecutor\u2019s offices, and \u20ac3,100 more per month for the Special Court and SPAK.<\/p>\n
An Italian proverb says, \u2018due indizi non fanno una prova\u2019\u2014two indications do not constitute proof\u2014which today, if you look at how people are accused in our political and media arena, constitute not one conviction but two.<\/p>\n
But I will in no way follow the flawed logic of conviction based on indications, even in this case. I will remain convinced that these two deeply concerning indications do not prove that the protagonists of judicial independence have lost their heads and become convinced that they are the state, the law, and justice,\u201d Rama said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Edi Rama said on his podcast Flasim that the Constitutional Court\u2019s decision to lift the suspension of Belinda Balluku eliminated a dangerous precedent in which a judge attempted to take over the powers of the government. Referring to the new justice system, Rama said there is a need for inter-institutional reflection, as he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n