The Chairman of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi, has responded harshly in the Assembly to Prime Minister Edi Rama regarding the law on judges and prosecutors, accusing him of designing a private state. Bardhi reminded Rama that, in 2016, he boasted that judges and prosecutors would have higher salaries than his, since he had designed the justice reform as a whip against the opposition. But today, said Bardhi, when judges and prosecutors have knocked on his door for major corruption cases, the Prime Minister is retaliating by not giving them their salaries.
GAZMENT BARDHIT'S STATEMENT:
Edi Rama conceives of the state as a private state. You do not respect the decisions of the Constitutional Court, because you treat its decisions as if they were part of your humor. If you do not like them, you do not implement them. In 2016, you were enthusiastic about judges and prosecutors having the highest possible salaries, because you projected the justice reform as a whip against the opposition. But, as soon as the prosecutors and judges knocked on your door, first at Belinda's and, most likely, very soon at yours too, you said: Wait! How did I make the mistake of treating them with a higher salary than mine?
How can it happen that the judges and prosecutors, whose salaries were significantly increased thanks to your generosity in 2016, dare to knock on the Parliament without my permission to request the removal of the mandate of my deputy? How can the judges and prosecutors suspend my deputy? I have your salaries in my hands! I increased them, I reduced them!
Back then, you were very enthusiastic, because you thought that you were doing the justice reform only to hit the opposition. You didn't think that you wouldn't be able to control it, because for you it is unimaginable not to control everything. You are used to controlling every tender in the Republic of Albania. You talk about state-building! With whom will you build the state? With Ron Yefet, who speaks on behalf of the entire state, even though he is an anonymous foreign citizen? The only connection is that he shares the money with you.
