O protect the Republic, or do not give decisions in its name!

2022-07-07 17:17:11Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA PLARENT NDRECA
O protect the Republic, or do not give decisions in its name!
Plarent Ndreca

Yesterday, by chance, on one of the portals, from those who "violently" enter your smartphone space, I saw one of the ugliest performances that had caught my eye since the performances in the footage of the state archive, which publishes them from time to time occasionally Fevziu in his Opinion.

I saw an international representative (it doesn't matter what the name is or what he represents individually) complaining to the special appeals chamber, or rather the vetting chamber in the Constitutional Court, for the decision it just gave.

The show was unimaginable, good thing it was with voice and image. A party in the process that fired a thunderbolt at the group of 5 constitutional judges, who sat there numb, motionless and paralyzed to this harbut denigration, which was done not just to them, but to the Republic in whose name they had made the decision.

I have said it several times publicly and I repeat it again, that one of the fundamental problems of our society is disrespect for institutions in particular and the state in general. We have a low, very low culture (the reasons are not the moment to elaborate) of respect and "humbleness" towards institutional decision-making. This disease is not being eradicated from the fragile body of our state of law, certainly with the contribution of everyone, politics, media, civil society, but also those who issue these decisions.

Let's be clear, respect or "humility" towards institutions does not necessarily mean agreement with their decision-making, it does not mean giving up the right to observe it, or to use all the instruments that a state has guarantees the right to challenge that decision. On the contrary, such an approach shows institutional respect and civic dignity.

But when you see an international representative, a representative of those who have contributed so much, precisely to the installation of this value that I am talking about, who violates so openly and so brazenly, not just the judicial body, but the decision already given in name of the Republic, certainly feels a worrying irritation.

But, in that completely ugly show, the ugliest and most disturbing part was the (non)reaction of the Constitutional corps. Except for a turn of one of the troupe members in an attempt to leave, the rest were stunned and listened to the public accusation that a party in the process made to the highest decision in our domestic jurisdiction.

Now, I don't know if the decision was right or wrong, as I don't know the case (I tend to think the court made the right decision), but the reaction of the constitutional judiciary to that ugly, unworthy behavior even for a third-world judicial system, it has cast a heavy shadow of doubt not only on decision-making, but also on the very integrity of this chamber of the Constitutional Court. Their inability or impossibility to not allow this ugly public display, their lack of reaction in the hall, but not even after the session, to such behavior, shows that disrespect for institutions (the disease I talked about above) starts from the institution itself for the decisions his.

If they had any respect for their platoon and for the Republic they represent, such a display in a state of law could not and should not be allowed to happen.

If constitutional judges do not have the necessary integrity to defend their decisions, they cannot expect others to respect these decisions. We all as a society must cultivate respect for our institutions, but if the institutions themselves do not have respect for their decisions, this enterprise has no chance of making any headway, but is destined to fail from the start. In the end, respect for institutional decisions is respect for our Republic.

So dear constitutional judges, either protect the Republic or don't give decisions in its name!


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