Prime Minister Edi Rama, speaking at a meeting of the Socialist Party parliamentary group, stated that it was the socialist government that granted independence to the judiciary in the country.

He said that homemade 'bombs' are flying up and down the judiciary, and prosecutors and judges are losing their sight, while adding that the judiciary should not cripple the independence of the other two branches of government.
Rama added that Balluk's suspension was a brutal intervention in executive power.

'For unjustifiable but also unnecessary interference of the judiciary in the affairs of the executive and the legislative together. The state has three independent powers from each other and if one of them interferes in the affairs of the other, the progress is no longer valid. We believe that when the democratic Constitution of the Republic of Albania and all the constitutions of Europe say that there are 3 independent powers, they cannot be on paper as they could have been before if we had done everything we have done. This party has stepped into the sea and after 100 or so years of Albanian statehood, we have given real independence to the judicial power.

I never regret this, regardless of the homemade bombs that are being hatched by prosecutors and judges up and down in Albania, whose taste of real independence intoxicates them, clouds their reason, darkens their eyes, and sends them in directions that violate the independence of other powers, making them, at the very least, violators of human rights.

"Today, the danger of the crossroads is not that the executive or the legislative branches will violate the independence of the judiciary, but that they will cripple the independence of the other two branches to function, and this has happened. This cannot happen in this country. Because this country that is on the rise does not have the luxury of being restrained and not returning to where it was. What is the suspension of the minister with a decision of a preliminary hearing without a trial, unprecedented in the history of the world, except for brutal intervention," he said.