Tirana, 21 November 2025, dtt-net.com – The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, today accused country’s special prosecutor office and judges of special court against corruption and organized crime for deciding to suspend from government posts the indicted Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku, of what he called “brutal interference” against his government.
Rama said that his government will challenge the decision of court at the Constitutional Court, after Balluku is suspended from both posts following criminal charges filed by the special prosecution of corruption and organized crime (SPAK) of breach of rules related to two public procurements, construction of a motorway tunnel in the south of the country and motorway ring of capital Tirana tendering.
In a press conference with the European Commissioner in charge of enlargement of the European Union, Marta Kos, said that the decision of the SPAK prosecutor office and GJKKO court are part of what he called the “weakness” of Albania’s new judiciary system and are “anti-democratic reflexes” of it.
“This is a unique case in the history of Europe and also in the history of the special judicial bodies that were created in the European integration processes of the countries of the former communist alliances, where it has never happened that a prosecutor and a judge came together and suspended a member of the government from office,” Rama said when asked by journalists over Balluku case.
Rama said the government will file a complaint to the top court over what he called “violation” of government’s functioning by SPAK and the GJKKO.
“We will seek protection of the independence of the violated functioning of the government only from the justice in the constitutional court,” he said.
Rama went on accusing the two judiciary bodies of “brutal act of interference in the independence of the executive power”.
“The Constitutional Court will have to tell us what its position is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Albania” Rama said.
EU Commissioner Marta Kos refused to comment on the situation related to Balluku, but said Albania has an independent judiciary system which she said is “one of the biggest achievements” of the country recently.
The court has also banned Balluku from leaving the country and has confiscated her passport.
On both charges, SPAK said that Balluku and her associates have “predetermined the winner of this procurement procedure, created unfair advantages and privileges for the merger of economic operators.”
Five former officials of the ministry led by Balluku and infrastructure agency are also indicted on same charges.
