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Belinda Balluku should be protected by the Socialists as a former deputy prime minister and MP who should not go to prison without being tried. Simple as that.
There is an unnecessary complication among socialists when they try to find legal arguments in the case of the GJKKO's refusal to grant permission to arrest Ms. Balluku without trial.
In some of the arguments I heard, they tried to relativize the need for restricting freedom with prior imprisonment, since according to them the quality of the criminal offenses for which he is accused was of a minor nature, such as abuse of office or inequality in tenders.
And this is a complex stance of the Socialist Party in defending Balluk.
Socialists do not have to judge the quality of Balluk's criminal acts, because no one authorized them. They should defend the principle that no one should be imprisoned without a court decision, being a deputy or a high-ranking official of the Albanian state. This shows a political stance and a kind of political manliness in this case.
When you say that we are not granting permission for detention because there are minor charges from SPAK, you have simply encouraged SPAK to make a couple of serious charges, regardless of whether they fall or stand in court, and to tell you: now hand them over to me because there are serious charges.
So the Socialist Party has the right to defend Balluk politically and should do so without any complexes for him or anyone else. It should not be complexed by comparisons with the different fates of some of its previous exponents. It should admit that now among the Socialists there is a political conviction that the detention of those elected to parliament and government has turned into a political witch hunt and they will not tolerate it. They should say this clearly, simply and in a political tone. Legal arguments are not the business of a political party. They are a matter for the prosecution and the court.
The complication of the right to protect a deputy or a senior official from pretrial detention is the continuation of the relativization of the damage that pretrial detention has done to many former senior officials and senior politicians, and even worse, the creation of a paranoia about positive discrimination within them.
Belinda Balluku should be defended by the socialists as a former deputy prime minister and MP who should not go to prison without being tried. It's that simple. Any other argument does more harm than good.
The same complex is also reflected by the opposition, who complain all day long that their leaders Berisha and Meta are victims of pre-emptive repressive measures without trial and, on the other hand, try to create a broad conspiracy against an initiative of the Supreme Court, which has started the procedure for the partial change of one of the practices for restricting personal freedom.
The only mistake of the Supreme Court in this case is that it woke up last in this debate. If it had done so a year or two ago, it would have actually illuminated this political debate before others and would have done an extraordinary service to the standards of justice in Albania. But better late than never.
I understand that the opposition needs to use Balluk's battle with justice as a reason to delegitimize this initiative, but this is not the case. The unification of this practice is one more guarantee for justice, even a guarantee against political attacks on justice that the opposition complains about in the case of Berisha, Meta, Mediu, etc. Attacking an initiative that provides guarantees, even belated ones, for the legal security of a citizen in the investigation and trial process means dismissing all the complaints you have about repressive policies against opposition political figures.
Now we must accept that Ilir Meta was arrested in vain or in full. If they agree that he was arrested in advance and rightly so, then it makes sense. If they accept that the security measure against Berisha was right, then it makes sense to attack this practice. But if in the morning they go to the SPAK to cry because it summons Berisha and in the afternoon they attack the Supreme Court because it unifies practices for restricting freedom, then they are either hypocrites or complex.
And they are not in parliament and politics to dictate to the judiciary what decisions it should make and how to write them, but to use their authority to guarantee political and civil liberties. And the unification of a practice is a guarantee for everyone, except for those who want selective justice. If they want it that way, let them not complain, because we have it.
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