TIRANA Sept 20 /ATA/ Prime Minister Edi Rama, during the introduction of Justice Minister Besfort Lamallari, highlighted the effort to streamline legislation by removing overlaps.
“This is another project we have initiated with the Minister, and it involves not only the Ministry of Justice but all ministries—though its core lies here. If the heart beats strongly here, then the entire circulation of blood flows more rapidly. That is why harmonizing our legislation is essential,” Rama stressed.
The Prime Minister remarked, “Our legal framework comprises a complex array of laws and government decisions, some of which are contradictory and have accumulated over many decades. At times, we encounter constraints imposed by outdated legislation, such as laws dating back to 1956, despite operating within a fundamentally different system today. The initiative we have undertaken to address these issues must be advanced. This represents an exceptional undertaking—beyond the capacity of human effort alone—to systematically identify legislative overlaps and eliminate redundancies throughout the entire body of law.”
Rama further noted that the management of judicial cases is finally on the right track.
“This is not to suggest it was solely our responsibility, as we had provided funding for this project over several consecutive years. The project had not started because the independence of the judiciary was often confused with the independence of the system itself. Convincing the autonomous minds within the judiciary to implement the project and carry out the tender was extremely challenging, as they were unable to establish a digital system that was both fully integrated and secure from external systems,” Rama emphasized.
Rama highlighted that judicial independence has practical limits, emphasizing that being independent does not mean operating entirely separately from shared public resources, illustrating the real challenges of maintaining autonomy.
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