Edi Rama's over 100-minute speech in front of the Socialist Party parliamentary group members was filled with literary figures, metaphors, comparisons, satire and irony and, at least on the surface, he lacked a direct message regarding the topic of the day: the decision-making on Belinda Balluku's immunity.
On this issue, Rama said that he will wait for the report of the Immunity Council, which the Socialists have entrusted to Ulsi Manja. This was the public message, which, when combined with the rest of the Socialist leader's speech, suggests that Rama has shown the door to Belinda Balluku.
How? The Prime Minister focused his speech on the message to the parliamentary group to intervene in legislation, namely in the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code. The intervention will aim at more guarantees for ministers and the administration in the face of SPAK investigations.
Recalling the numbers in the Assembly, Rama said that these changes should not be interpreted as a confrontation with the new justice system, but rather a correction of the reform and what he called collateral damage.
Said in this context, the changes announced by Edi Rama, if approved, will not have a retroactive effect to protect Belinda Balluku, but they are offered to the parliamentary group and other socialists as a promise for the future.
This means that Edi Rama's political decision regarding Belinda Balluku has already been made and the promise of more guarantees in the future for his own people in the face of SPAK investigations is more of an attempt by him to keep the party united, and especially the MPs known as supporters of Belinda Balluku within the SP parliamentary group.
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