FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti 
Veliaj's appearance, accompanied by prison officers, in a hearing that was not criminal in nature, was read as a demonstration of the government's strength towards the Constitutional Court and an open warning of the decision that is expected...
Erion Veliaj appeared before the Constitutional Court today not as a defendant, but as a mayor who has opposed the decision to dismiss him. The sight of him handcuffed, accompanied by prison officers, was not a legal procedure, but a political act that violates the separation of powers and sends intimidating signals to the judiciary.
On the surface, today's hearing at the Constitutional Court was simply an institutional process: Erion Veliaj in the role of the mayor of Tirana who opposes his dismissal, seeking interpretation from the highest judicial body. But the way he appeared, accompanied by prison police, handcuffed and exposed in front of the cameras, turned this event into a clear political demonstration.
Instead of an official and calm atmosphere, the country saw a show of pressure on the Constitutional Court, which is expected to decide the political fate of the mayor, but also the limits of the government's powers.
Veliaj is not a criminal defendant, nor a subject under arrest on SPAK charges. In this process, he is a constitutional party, an institution that turns to another independent institution for legal interpretation.
However, the Ministry of Justice and the Prison Police treated him as an ordinary convict, violating every protocol that regulates the relationship between institutions.
According to procedural rules, a person who is taken from detention cells for a court trial is handed over to legal representatives or the court administration, not accompanied by uniforms inside the courtroom.
In this case, prison officers entered the premises of the Constitutional Court, turning the highest institution of justice into a symbolic scene of subjugation.
This act is more than a protocol error, it is a direct government intervention in the independence of the Constitutional Court.
Sources from within the judicial system confirm that the government is indirectly a party to this process, as the decision to dismiss Veliaj is the product of an open political clash between the majority and the justice structures.
In this context, entering with handcuffs in front of the Constitutional Court judges is not a coincidence, but a coded message: Rama seeks to show that the decisions of the courts are not independent, but conditioned by the will of the executive.
The lack of any reaction from the Ministry of Justice only confirms this. The institution that was supposed to clarify the procedures for cases when representatives of institutions are in the trial process, did not intervene, making it clear that everything was done with political conscience.
In this case, the state became a party by force within an institution that interprets the law itself. An act that violates the fundamental principle of the separation of powers and constitutes a dangerous precedent for the future of judicial independence.
If Rama's intention was to intimidate the Constitutional Court's judicial body, then the message has been understood. But at the same time, this action has made the crisis of trust between the powers even more visible, where the government attempts to impose its authority over justice.
For the first time, the Constitutional Court has been put to the test to protect not only a legal issue, but its own institutional integrity.
International observers have interpreted this event as a flagrant violation of the principles of the rule of law. A country aspiring to European integration cannot allow a minister or prime minister to turn a constitutional trial process into an instrument of his own political propaganda.
In the end, the Veliaj case is just a pretext; in essence, we are dealing with an open clash between justice and executive power, where the shackles are not placed on the individual, but on the Constitution itself./ Pamphlet
Saktë, por këta janë lëshu me i hangër kryt njeni tjetrit.
Burgu nuk e ven Veliajn engjell. Bashke me te gjatin e betonizuan Tiranen, shkaterruan cdo hapesire te gjelber. Nuk ja uroj kujt burgun, por keta e meritojne se lozen me shendetin e ketyre njerezve. Sa njerez kane ikur nga kjo bote se thithin gjithe kohes pluhurin e ndertuesve qe jane shperndare si kerpudhat pas shiut. Dhe sot gjithe mediat veliaj veliaj se akoma paguhen nga parate e vjedhura. Zgjohuni o njerez mendoni per jeten tuaj se Veliaj e ka zgjedhur vete rrugen e tij.