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Judges' salaries/ Rama continues with the attacks: They want chickpeas on a skewer, Albania is not their caste!
2026-02-08 10:43:49 / POLITIKË
Prime Minister Edi Rama once again spoke out against the request of judges and prosecutors, represented by their associations, with the request they have made to the Constitutional Court for a salary reference, which leads to an increase in salaries.
He said, among other things, in the "Flasim" podcast, episode 5 of the sixth season, that "judges are looking for chickpeas on a skewer" and that "Albania cannot become a caste of judges."
He explained that the salaries of a category of magistrates, prosecutors and special judges were decided to increase due to the justice reform that was undertaken, for the independence of the judiciary and the quality of justice, but the entire pyramid was not overturned.
Rama: "Once again, the issue of judges' salaries has remained on the agenda, there have been comments, oddities that have accompanied the debate, in addition to two associations, one of judges and one of prosecutors, the judges have placed themselves in the eye of the popular cyclone, in relation to a popular dissatisfaction, for the demand for a salary increase, this related to the internal survey where 90% are against the salary increase and some think that their salary should be reduced, because they are thoughtless and unfair. Meanwhile, the judges think that their salary should be increased.
Voices say that their salaries are decreasing, that the salaries of others are increasing. What we have done for the justice reform has been the expression of strong will regarding their salaries, they will be paid extra with our sacrifice, that after they pass the vetting they will face the independence of the judiciary, the challenge, based on the values of the constitution, democratic life, in the service of citizens and guarantor of the service of the law.
And we did this by inverting the salary pyramid, because in every country in the world there is a salary pyramid that starts with the president and goes down. And we, in the most conscious way, increased the salaries of judges above everyone else, but we did not impose them on everyone else, so that whenever these increase, these will also increase.
And Albania becoming the only country on the planet where judges or their caste are the country, this will not happen and cannot happen neither with me nor with the socialists. This is not as a challenge to the judicial power, but as a call and internal necessity of the state that the categories within it, including the judges, have a sense of law and the state, not looking for chickpeas on a skewer and even more so not using the stone and the nut for a law that they made themselves.
While I was personally attacked, the government was attacked by the authors of the judges' statement, I did not consult with the judges about the text, to tell them what they are doing, we are here to do justice and not to attack the government or the republic.
The positive thing is that there was no reaction to my reaction, I don't want controversy, but it must be said that there can be no salary increase for judges, or increase it by 2 or 3 thousand euros, or have it higher than others. It is good that judges put an end to this deadlocked debate because it also harms the judges themselves, because there is a representation.
"That's why we are against, and strongly against, the idea that Albanians don't do that in any democratic country."
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