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Edi Rama's battle with justice does not need spectacle, but reforms

2026-02-04 21:29:38Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA MERO BAZE
Prime Minister Edi Rama

Prime Minister Edi Rama is justifying the failure of the Justice Reform, and this is a bigger mistake than what his government has made with the Reform itself.

His public debates with the associations of judges and prosecutors and any of their spokespeople, or journalists sponsored by the Reform NGO, are attempts to escape the responsibility he has as prime minister and as leader of the parliamentary majority since 2013, for what has happened to justice in Albania.

The debates are not only worthless, but also dangerous, as they create the idea that he is attacking some healthy institutions of justice, diverting the problem from its core.

The core of the problem is that the Justice Reform has failed. In order to fight a disease that you have caused yourself, you must first accept it. Edi Rama acts as if the Justice Reform is in order, but this thing about the salaries that judges and prosecutors are demanding ruins it. In fact, they are the only people in Albania who do not know how much their salary is and I am a little surprised that they pretend to calculate it.

The superpower that the prosecution and the Special Court have received from the failed Justice Reform has not given Albanian citizens justice, but has increased its price. The cases are before our eyes every day: thousands of untried files, justice that comes a decade late, a frightening arrogance of the prosecution that has turned detentions into corruption ATMs and a multiplied price of corruption in the justice system.

What used to cost a little money now becomes many times more expensive.

And as if the repressive spirit of SPAK were not enough, we are now faced with an ugly model where every district prosecutor feels like a SPAK prosecutor and imitates the same spirit of repression.

Look at the waste scandal at the Port of Durres by the company "Kurum". In such stories, the criminal has a name. The name of the criminal is the toxic waste production company, which falsifies the composition of the goods and does not declare the waste, as well as its transportation company, which pretends not to know.

Then the pyramid of responsibility goes to the port and customs and of course to the Environment Agency, if they are declared waste. But the moment they are not declared waste, then the crime becomes more serious for “Kurum” and their transporter.

So what happens?

The direct perpetrators of this masquerade are reported and flee to Turkey, while five young men and women from the Environmental Agency, and some customs inspectors whose shift has been cut short, who I believe have no idea what this story is about, are arrested and imprisoned.

 

The arrest of 35 people, most of whom are low-level officials without any weight or responsibility, is more of a corruption scheme than a "heroic battle" against corruption. There, more than corruption, there is a conscious crime, responsible for which are those who the prosecution has let escape and then declared wanted.

The rest is a spectacle, which, if you calculate it with the circulating fees, amounts to over 2 million euros in tips.

I took this as a fresh example of repression to show that within two days we have arrests of young male and female civil servants and the release from prison, for example, of someone accused of attempted murder.

All these details show that repression is simply a means to demonstrate absolute power and ensure immunity from parliament and institutions of control over justice, not justice.

Edi Rama doesn't need to engage in polemics with judges and prosecutors. I or one of my colleagues as an opinion writer can do that in newspapers or on television.

We didn't vote for Edi Rama as the best editorialist in the country, but as the best prime minister. He must be able to live up to what he has done.

If he has political courage and if he feels responsible that the Justice Reform has failed, he should accept it and take all the responsibilities and consequences to correct it. If he thinks that the Justice Reform is good, that citizens are receiving more justice, that the country is moving towards European standards of justice as we dreamed when we supported the Justice Reform, then he should remain calm, because the salary issue is not a problem. Let them have it.

The thing is, many of them do not deserve the status of judge and prosecutor, as they are simply behaving like an independent gang of fine-sitters, spiteful, and ignorant people in the justice system.

And this can no longer be solved with pointless public polemics and debates. Let's start correcting the system with the High Inspectorate of Justice, which is an institution within the system that can protect citizens from bad justice, and if it doesn't work, continue with legal changes that make it easier for citizens and give them the opportunity to receive justice.

As much money as they want for a salary in a year, they receive in a week as bribes with this superpower and lack of accountability that politics has given them. An independent power, even when it is uncontrolled, has no reason to respect the law. Not even to read it. It has its own interests and its own unlimited power that you have given it.

They deserve to be independent, but not to the point of depending on everyone who deals with justice.

Prime Minister Edi Rama and the ruling majority are responsible for the failure of the Justice Reform, which is practically simply a special propaganda operation that justifies the salaries of Western ambassadors in Albania, but not the need of Albanian citizens for justice.

Many say that the price of escaping this justice reform is conflict with the European Union. I am not sure about this, but if this justice system continues with this irresponsibility, with this high level of corruption, with this pretext of preliminary arrests to extort money, then there is no need to break with the EU, because the image of Albania will be so tarnished as a country where all the people are going to prison, that they will not even accept us in the African Union.

The damage being done to citizens by the failure of the Justice Reform and the damage being done to Albania by this spectacle of arrests is so great and so far from the standards of European justice, that this reform distances us from the EU more than its correction. In both cases, we will remain outside it, with this state of justice. But at least we will remain outside with better justice.


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