“This Is the Language of Ultras, Not of a Judge!” – Salary Deadlock, Rama Reacts Again: No One Can Replace Parliament

Prime Minister Edi Rama has again reacted on “X” about judges’ salaries, stressing that “no one can replace parliament and no one can order the legislature when to raise its hand.”

Edi Rama’s reaction:

“Never — this is not the language of a judge, it is the language of an ultra shouting in the street against VAR.

Pity, and a few simple truths:

No one can replace parliament, and no one can order the legislature when to raise its hand. Only the Constitutional Court, and no one else, has the right and duty to tell it when it has raised its hand wrongly — but even it can never tell the independent legislative power how to raise its hand.

Salary policy is proposed only by the government, approved only by parliament and implemented only by the government. The Constitutional Court intervenes only if a constitutional principle or norm is violated, which lawmakers must repair without being infringed in their independence, as they see fit to express it with their vote.

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If, God forbid, the associations of prosecutors and judges have decided, with political and legal tools coordinated with prosecution and court offices like an army lined up against the government, to impose themselves on us with lawsuits, securities or enforcement orders to raise their salaries, then we face a challenge of a new kind, which does not frighten us but worries us immensely. But we do not want it to be so, and I do not want to allow it to happen this way, because unlike what this media judge thinks, this stratospheric-salary issue is for us not a matter of spite but a challenge of European state-building for Albania.

It is very simple. The table prepared for the requested and cancelled meeting remains ready. On September 17 only this publicly tense episode ends, which could and should have been avoided — but the need to communicate between independent powers does not dry up. On the contrary, it was not born from the salary episode and will only grow at every step toward membership in the European Union.

But we have the table and the readiness; the rest is in the judges’ judgment.”

Never — this is not the language of a judge, it is the language of an ultra shouting in the street against VAR.

Pity, and a few simple truths:

No one can replace parliament, and no one can order the legislature when to raise its hand. Only the Constitutional Court, and no one else, has the right and duty to tell it when it has raised its hand wrongly — but even it can never tell the independent legislative power how to raise its hand.

Salary policy is proposed only by the government, approved only by parliament and implemented only by the government. The Constitutional Court intervenes only if a constitutional principle or norm is violated, which lawmakers must repair without being infringed in their independence, as they see fit to express it with their vote.

If, God forbid, the associations of prosecutors and judges have decided, with political and legal tools coordinated with prosecution and court offices like an army lined up against the government, to impose themselves on us with lawsuits, securities or enforcement orders to raise their salaries, then we face a challenge of a new kind, which does not frighten us but worries me immensely for the destructive potential it has. But we do not want it to be so, and I do not want to allow it to slide into a conflict of powers, because unlike what this media judge thinks, this stratospheric-salary issue is for us not a matter of spite but a challenge of European state-building for Albania.

It is very simple. The table prepared for the requested and cancelled meeting remains ready. On September 17 only this publicly tense episode ends, which could and should have been avoided — but the need to communicate between independent powers does not dry up. On the contrary, it was not born from the salary episode and will only grow at every step toward membership in the European Union.

But we have the table and the readiness; the rest is in the judges’ judgment 🙂

— Edi Rama (@ediramaal) September 14, 2026