Capital.bg: The changes in the procedure for election of the new Prosecutor General are not accidental

In an interview today the director of BILI Mrs. Bilyana Gyaurova commented that the recently launched idea for amendments allowing the current and already “tamed” Supreme Judicial Council to elect the new Prosecutor General sounds like a joke both at the representatives of civil sector and the professional guild and at the recommendations of the European Commission (EC).

In response to the statements of the government and the Parliament that there are no longer possibilities for direct election of the new SJC, she said that it is not a matter of further analysis but rather a matter of motivation and organization. Direct election, as reaffirmed also by the EC, is the most democratic mechanism available and has already been implemented in Romania in respect of twice as much judges and prosecutors. In this  country it is provided that two members of the civil society shall also participate in the SJC composition.
Mrs. Gyaurova also explained that the candidates for the positions of the “three big” have to justify the high public confidence voted to them and indicated also in the long mandate they receive (7 years).

A possibility may be given to the minister of justice to nominate candidates, while the  current members of the SJC have to guarantee transparent and objective election process by checking properly candidates’ career and professional qualities. She expressed the opinion that most probably the nominees’ names are already determined.
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