Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted after today the Court of First Instance in Tirana dismissed his defamation lawsuit against former Prime Minister Lulzim Basha in 2018.
Through a post on the social network 'X', Rama said that the judge's decision in the case is extremely satirical, further raising concerns about what would happen to more important issues if they were in her hands.
Rama has also called on the Judiciary government to pass through the filter of high public responsibility the deeds and tragedies that ordinary people's rights face in courtrooms, writes A2 CNN.
The Chief Executive also said that many judges, like the judge in the case in question, have a literacy level below the capacity of a 12-year-old.
Rama's full reaction:
The Tirana Court of First Instance today dismissed my defamation lawsuit against Luli in 2018, for which the judge took seven years to conclude that, as the plaintiff, I "have not suffered any damage, since I currently hold the office of Prime Minister and the statements", therefore Luli's defamation "has not affected the public's perception of me"!!!
So according to the judge, Luli did not slander as long as his slander did not remove me from office!!!
Now that this reasoning did not come from a humorous book, but from a court, and that the reasoning is not the author of "The Good Soldier Schweik", but a judge who is paid more than a teacher or a doctor from Albanian taxes, this is a fact to cry about and not at all to laugh about - when you then consider that this judge belongs to the Union that is demanding a 700 Euro salary increase from the Constitutional Court, crying becomes lamentation! Meanwhile, if you add to this satirical judicial event the doubt about how people's rights can be put in the hands of such a judge on more important issues, then you come to ask very loudly:
Will the Judiciary government, with its senior advisors and inspectors and hundreds of highly paid administration employees, wake up from their slumber to put the deeds and tragedies that ordinary people's rights face in courtrooms through the filter of high public accountability?!
So let's be clear, the problem isn't what a judge did with a defamation case, especially when the defamers in question don't even take the laceless shoes I wear seriously :-)
The problem here is how to deal with the much more important issues of the people of this country, which depend on the mind of the judge in question or others like her, types whose logical level is below the capacity of a 12-year-old!!! (A2 Televizion)