TIRANA, September 27/ATA/ – Prime Minister Edi Rama emphasized today that corruption remains a persistent threat to our journey, but noted a historic shift: corruption now faces an entirely different system. This new framework is built on independent institutions fully empowered to investigate, prosecute, try, and confiscate illegal assets without interference.
Speaking to the media from the press hall at “Mother Teresa” International Airport immediately after returning from the United States, Rama said: “Today—as I stop in this hall right after landing, and while all my opponents (from the disreputable figures of the opposition ranks to the bitter failures of former government circles) think they have invented a ‘miracle bomb’ to bring Rama down by shouting ‘Corruption, corruption, corruption—we are drowning in corruption’—I want to be very clear with all of you.”
However, the prime minister continued, I know for certain that the time when justice in this country was a closed door whenever fairness came knocking, yet an open room whenever wrongdoing sought a deal, will never return.
“The time when political power and impunity were one and the same will not return. That era has passed because I, the Socialist Party, and the majority of Albanians who placed their trust in us boldly undertook the deepest, most challenging and most painful reform in the history of the Albanian state. It was the reform of reforms, the challenge of challenges, the most profound transformation of all. We undertook the act of handing over the sword of justice—held by political power since 1912—to a new authority: a justice system liberated and made independent through our own will,” said Rama.
“Today, for the first time in the history of the Albanian state, Albania’s institutional system itself is demonstrating a capacity for self-purification that it never possessed before; this is a major national achievement. /k.s/a.f/r.e/p.s./
