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Bylykbashi: Rama and the majority, deliberate delay for Balluk's immunity

2026-02-23 18:05:00, Politikë CNA

Bylykbashi: Rama and the majority, deliberate delay for Balluk's immunity

Democratic Party MP Oerd Bylykbashi today accused the majority of having deliberately delayed the procedures for lifting Belinda Balluku's immunity for more than two months.

Invited to "Syri TV", Bylykbashi said that at today's meeting of the Mandates Commission, Prime Minister Edi Rama himself gave the order, which was not followed by the Socialists, which according to him also made it impossible for the opposition members to hold a debate.

"First, that meeting should have been public, except for those moments when the prosecution would rightly request, would request to preserve investigative secrecy, to stop the live broadcast. This is very important. The public should hear how, not only our arguments regarding this issue, because we have a very clear position in relation to immunity, since the moment when as a majority of the Democratic Party in 2012 we limited it. And we are not, we are not equivocal in this regard. As long as we have been in power, the prosecution's requests for lifting immunity have never been under discussion. Meanwhile, what you have seen is that the Socialist Party, starting with the Tahiri case, established new procedures de facto, turning the Immunity Council, the Council for the Regulation of Mandates and Immunity into a kind of quasi-court, which is not the task of parliament.

And then with the changes that he made in 2019, make no mistake, without the opposition present, at that time we were not in parliament, strengthening this. But the case of Balluk is special. It is special that if in other cases we have had within two to nine days maximum, it has been removed from the moment the request arrived until the decision to lift immunity, the maximum has been two to nine days. This time we are, the last session was on December 19 and a few days earlier the request had arrived. Since December 19, only today the committee, the Council of Regulations, Mandates and Immunity, is meeting for the second time, while we had made five official requests, based on the regulations, article 118, which gave us the right to half of the committee, five members that we were, to request the convening of a meeting and the Speaker of the Assembly consistently refused either in writing or with factual actions.

We also, so not only did we have the right to call a meeting, but five members, unlike other cases, so not 50% plus 1, but half, is enough according to the regulation to make a quorum. All these attempts to produce two, more than two months of delay from the moment when the prosecution came and said, preferably within three to five days to make a decision. Because the circumstances of the case have become very serious, not only because the number of proceedings, that is, of the tender procedures that were taken under investigation has increased, from two initially, they had gone, so they had gone, seven or eight more were added. And, also, then, since then the prosecution informed us that the witness, was a witness, this defendant, the deputy, the minister, the deputy prime minister Balluku, had intimidated witnesses. This was clear from the documentation they left us, but despite this, Edi Rama gave the clear order, the Speaker of the Parliament did not hesitate and we did not have the opportunity to have this debate.

It was quite interesting how even Ms. Balluku's lawyer said that in such a case, even seconds and minutes are very important. But despite the fact that he was also convinced of this, the majority gave him full space to create the whole situation, possibly to contaminate and poison the evidence and consequently the criminal process. What we, if you had been on a public connection, that is, on a live connection with public broadcast at the committee meeting, you would have heard how the Socialist Party had questions only for the prosecution. There were no questions at all for Ms. Balluku's lawyers. And the whole effort was to argue why immunity should not be lifted. What is impressive is that the majority itself, but also Ms. Balluku's lawyers, accepted the fact that there are no traces, data for political persecution. If this is the conclusion, then they are convinced, this is where this whole discussion ends," Bylykbashi said. /CNA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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