Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced that tomorrow, together with Taulant Balla and Ulsi Manjë, they will file the initiative for legal changes related to the powers of the judiciary, following the decision to suspend Minister Belinda Balluku.
"I would like to pause for a clarification on the conclusions of the Parliamentary Group meeting, following the Constitutional Court's failure to make a decision. Once again, the issue is not about the person, but about the principle."
On the principle of the non-negotiable separation of powers. The court, in exercising its powers, has the right to impose security measures for any person under investigation. But at the same time, there are some functions, including that of the minister, that are paralyzed if the minister is suspended.
So if you say that I suspend a minister, the President, etc., you are actually producing an immediate consequence equivalent to dismissal.
Because it is not simply the person who has been suspended, but the function. Precisely because of the function, the appointment or dismissal of a minister is not possible anywhere, in any country in the world, because no one has brought a case in any country in the world where this competence is vested in a prosecutor or judge with a preliminary hearing.
The independence of the judiciary ends where the independence of the other two branches of government, the legislative and the executive, begins.
"However, we will go beyond the specific case and on Monday, together with the group leader Taulant Balla and the chairman of the Laws Committee, Ulsi Manja, we will file the initiative to immediately address the gap in question. The initiative will be presented to the parliamentary group first and will be transparent to public opinion," Rama said, among other things.