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Lessons for Rama from Athens
2026-04-22 21:30:38 / POLITIKË
While Edi Rama is in Athens, the Greek Parliament is giving a clear lesson on the standard that power should have in the face of justice.
By an overwhelming majority of votes, Parliament lifted the immunity of 13 MPs from Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' New Democracy party, over suspicions of abuse of EU agricultural funds, paving the way for an investigation. An almost unanimous consensus, where in an unheard-of act, the suspected MPs themselves voted to lift their immunity.
This goes beyond parliamentary procedure. It is political culture. It is a red line that Greek politics has apparently set for itself: there is no immunity in the face of suspicion.
In Albania, meanwhile, the picture is completely different.
Not just a member of parliament, but the former number 2 in the government, Belinda Balluku, is being sued by SPAK for fixing tenders and benefiting from millions of euros. Issues that require a full investigation, transparency and political distancing.
But on the contrary, in our Albania, which aspires to join the EU, the socialist majority has closed in on itself to preserve power, relativizing the accusations, politicizing the investigation, and protecting the immunity of the accused MP.
And this is where the model breaks down.
What happened in Greece is not the luxury of an old democracy, but the discipline of a system that has understood from experience that standards and public trust are maintained by exposing the truth.
And this is the lesson that Edi Rama is learning up close today, in Athens: It is not enough to talk about European standards, you must implement them, especially when they affect you at home.
Standards are not proven with statements, but with the choice that power makes in the face of justice!/ BW
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