Court dismisses lawsuit after 7 years/ Rama "slaps" judge, mocks Luli

2025-06-12 15:35:00, Politikë CNA

It took the Tirana Court a full 7 years to decide to dismiss Prime Minister Edi Rama's defamation lawsuit against Luli Basha.

In a reaction, Rama stated that the judge in the case has a logical level below the capacity of a 12-year-old.

The Prime Minister emphasizes that after 7 years, the judge has concluded that, as a plaintiff, he has not suffered any harm, since he currently holds the office of Prime Minister and therefore Luli's defamation has not affected his public perception of him.

Rama underlines that the problem is not what a judge did with a defamation case, especially when the defamer in question, referring to Luli, takes the laceless shoes he wears seriously, but according to the Prime Minister, the problem is how even more important issues that depend on the mind of the judge who gave the decision for Luli are expected to be reviewed.

"The Court of First Instance of Tirana today dismissed my defamation lawsuit against Luli in 2018, for which the judge took seven years to conclude that, as the plaintiff, I "have not suffered any damage, since I currently hold the office of Prime Minister and the statement", therefore Luli's defamation "has not affected the public's perception of me"!!!

So according to the judge, Luli did not slander as long as his slander did not remove me from office!!!

Now that this reasoning did not come from a humorous book, but from a court, and that the reasoning is not the author of "The Good Soldier Schweik", but a judge who is paid more than a teacher or a doctor from Albanian taxes, this is a fact to cry about and not at all to laugh about - when you then consider that this judge belongs to the Union that is demanding a 700 Euro salary increase from the Constitutional Court, crying becomes wailing!

And if you then add to this satirical judicial event the doubt about how people's rights can be placed in the hands of such a judge on more important issues, then you have to ask: Will the Judiciary government, with its senior advisors and inspectors and hundreds of its highly paid administration employees, wake up from their slumber to put the deeds and tragedies that ordinary people's rights face in courtrooms through the filter of high public responsibility?!

And let's be clear, the problem isn't what a judge did with a defamation case, especially when the defamers in question don't even take the laceless shoes I wear seriously :-)

The problem here is how to deal with the much more important issues of the people, which depend on the mind of the judge in question or others like her, whose logical level is below the capacity of a 12-year-old!!!", writes Rama./ CNA