The Democratic Party Parliamentary Group has requested an urgent interpellation with Prime Minister Edi Rama, regarding the issue of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku.
In the request signed by the group's chairman, Gazment Bardhi , the DP claims that the Prime Minister is interfering in the justice system with his statements about Balluk.
Excerpt from the request signed by the group's chairman, Gazment Bardhi :
"Such a request by the Prime Minister of Albania is not only unfounded in the Constitution, but also constitutes an inappropriate interference in the independence of the justice system and aims to cement the culture of impunity in the country."
In normal behavior, in a NATO member country and candidate country for membership in the European Union, the Prime Minister should have immediately proposed the dismissal from office of a minister who has been accused of abuses in several public procurement procedures, worth millions of euros, and in no way can he act as a law firm for a defendant.
He seeks to put pressure on justice, in the hope that he will throw the Constitutional Court itself, which exists as a guarantee of constitutionality and not impunity, off the constitutional rails.
It is clear that this movement has only political effects; more precisely, it is a tool of pressure/political message and does not aim for a legal solution.
We, the opposition MPs, assess that the request of Prime Minister Edi Rama, which only aims to send the message to the justice bodies that the defendant Belinda Balluku is not like all other defendants, but enjoys special political/institutional protection from the Prime Minister/Council of Ministers, deserves only contempt, as an anti-democratic and unconstitutional act, especially from the justice bodies themselves, including the Constitutional Court, which is facing the test of protecting the right to a full, inviolable, comprehensive and unhindered investigation by the investigative bodies."