Prime Minister Edi Rama said that the Socialist Party will not stand by without criticizing the work of the new justice bodies, despite supporting their work.
"I want to make it very clear that our position regarding unreserved support, regarding support for every process towards the new justice institutions, which have the duty to wage an uncompromising fight against corruption, remains an unchanged position. What changes is that we have the duty to contribute not simply with unquestionable institutional and political support towards the new justice institutions, but also with our opinions so that the non-negotiable independence of prosecutors and judges is as closely linked to professionalism and the guarantee of democratic standards. Otherwise, we fall into a situation that resembles the past more than the future. Because Albania has had a dictatorship or a republic of investigators in the past. This is a parliamentary republic, where the powers are independent," Rama said at the meeting of the SP parliamentary group, writes A2 CNN.
According to him, today there are only two sides in the public debate: "One that applauds and cheers every time the "guillotine" appears. According to that side, everyone is for prison, for the rope, for being killed, and the other is the side that attacks the new justice organs in a bandit manner and that targets with a "book of arrows" the prosecutors and judges who do their job, starting with the head of SPAK, who has all our support and solidarity in terms of all the mud he has received and is receiving as a family. But a constructive side is missing that should be a guarantor of the independence of the judiciary, but it should also be a guarantor of freedoms and rights and democratic standards. Because as I said, otherwise we fall into the trap of the past."
"For me, it is inconceivable that the chairwoman of the Albanian Parliament's Laws Committee, without even going into the merits of the case, regardless of whether there are accusations in that 400-page "novel", finds out about it from television and special journalists. That we have a Special Prosecutor, a Special Court and special journalists. This political force will not undertake to grant innocence to anyone who is investigated by justice, but unlike yesterday, from today onwards this political force will not remain silent in the face of flagrant violations of standards and brutality by anyone. Only an idiot can say that we control justice. We have officially received the certificate that our hands are far from justice. But we are not fence posts that we do not say anything when we come across - intentionally or unintentionally - episodes like this. At a minimum, the chairwoman of the Laws Committee should have been called and asked. Where are we here?", added the prime minister. (A2 Televizion)
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