The decision taken this Friday by the Constitutional Court regarding the lifting of the suspension from office of Belinda Balluku has been published in the official gazette .
In this way, from this moment on, Balluku returns to duty as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy.



The Constitutional Court decided today to suspend the decisions of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, which prohibited the exercise of office by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku.
The decision taken this Friday immediately reinstates Balluku, suspending the effects of the restraining order until the trial is concluded.
The Constitutional Court decided to accept the appeal filed in this case and set the date for the hearing as January 22, 2026, at 10:00. Thus, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Prime Minister Rama, who claimed that the judiciary had unjustly interfered with the executive branch. Rama emphasized that there is no example in the international arena where a prosecutor or even a first-instance judge has decided to suspend a member of the government from office.
According to the official announcement, the Meeting of Judges previously reviewed the issue requested by Prime Minister Edi Rama, which was related to the resolution of the dispute over competence created between the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, on the one hand, and the First Instance Court of Appeals, on the other hand, regarding the suspension of the exercise of the duties of a member of the Council of Ministers.
The announcement states that the Constitutional Court, by majority vote, decided to suspend the implementation of court decisions no. 118, dated 19.11.2025 and no. 120, dated 22.11.2025, which had imposed on Balluk the prohibitive measure "Suspension of the exercise of a public duty or service". Consequently, the decision of the Constitutional Court loses effect until the final review of the case.
The Court also decided to move the case for consideration in a public plenary session due to high public interest, summoning as interested parties SPAK, GJKKO, the Albanian Parliament and the President of the Republic.
The date of the public plenary session was also set: January 22, 2026, 10:00, as stipulated in Article 27 of the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court in cases where suspension is accepted.