DP Chairman Sali Berisha stopped short of authorizing the lifting of Belinda Balluku's immunity, which would have paved the way for her subsequent arrest, calling this decision a wall in defense of corruption.

Berisha accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of being involved in affairs and that he refuses to be investigated and tried for the thefts committed.

"Honorable members of the DP leadership, this meeting is called at an extremely special moment for the country. At a moment in which Edi Rama, after an extraordinary effort by the opposition, but the truth is also by international partners and international institutions for the implementation, functioning of the rule of law, the implementation of the law and the Constitution, Edi Rama openly removed every mask, rejected a great effort to help Albania and voted in parliament the wall, the shield of his corruption, of his thefts and included, or under the pretext, Deputy Prime Minister Lubi Balluku.
This ugly and unprecedented act in the history of Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain is blatant evidence of his direct incrimination in mega-corruption affairs.
It is blatant evidence that Edi Rama has refused to be investigated, to be tried for his monstrous thefts.
Today in Albania, but also abroad, fortunately there is no one who does not know that Lubia is simply Edi Rama's secretary, notary, and that everything, or rather, that at the core of everything lies his criminal activity.
In this unprecedented three-month clash, the absolute victim was without question the institution of the prosecution, the special prosecution and the court, for which the chief judge and chief prosecutor after the vote in parliament will be only Edi Rama.
With the parliament's decision to close the possibilities of investigation without immunity, the institution of the prosecution or its attempts to function on the basis of the law, outside of executive control, receive a fatal, annihilating, final blow. So, instead of Lubi Balluku and her associates, that in fact it is not she who has eaten pears behind Rama's back, but it is Rama who has eaten pears, so with the vote in parliament, the message is very clear that you will not be able to exercise legal demands against any person connected to Edi Rama, without prior approval from Edi Rama. That in order for you to function, you will necessarily receive approval, otherwise the 83 criminal mandates await you, ready to reject any of their demands," he said.