Prime Minister Edi Rama stated during his speech before the National Assembly that the Socialist Party has never intervened in justice issues.
"But it must be said as clearly as possible from the beginning what I believe we should all share together on the issue of justice and our relationship with it. We, the Socialist Party, have never entered into any case and for any case on the merits of a justice issue, even more so when justice has not finally spoken its word. We have not done this and we will never do it, by becoming the lawyer of anyone among the people of this large political family who is investigated or detained by the police, even when it may not seem fair to us. We have not had and will not have for as long as I am at the helm, any regrets about the freedom and independence that we have given to justice with the justice reform and above all with the historic withdrawal of majority power from the field of judicial power. Through the reform, we have consciously removed the hands of the executive from any process of selection, election, promotion, or dismissal of prosecutors and judges, and also from any form of control over their activity ," said Rama.
However, Rama had criticism of SPAK and GJKKO.
"We will not waver even today despite the universally recognized fact that beyond the indisputable achievements, the new judicial power occasionally shows signs of an old disease. They damage the health of the country's democratic organism. The judicial power still has in its ranks prosecutors and judges, not a few of whom are short-sighted, narrow-minded and sometimes with a blatant lack of integrity. Meanwhile, the independent governance of the system reacts as if it were asleep at the wheel," said Rama.