“The General Prosecutor’s Evaluation Farce is finally over. The buffoons have played their show, and now, eagerly, they are waiting for their applause. It’s just that there is not much to applaud since everyone knows that the result was preconceived and the harlequins had spoken from the start”. This is the reaction of the suspended Prosecutor General Alexandr Stoianoglo to the publication of a report that rated his job as “unsatisfactory”.

According to Alexandr Stoianoglo, “it took the government seven long months to get rid of an inconvenient Prosecutor General. The entire procedure, which was just nonsense, took place in a perpetual readjustment of the rules, changes in the evaluation criteria, regulations and finding of the right people. Not even the Venice Commission Recommendations tempered the directors and actors of this circus, who brutally ignored the opinion of European experts who concluded that in no state based on the rule of law is there a procedure for evaluating the Attorney General”.

He also criticized the way the evaluators were selected, suggesting that they were biased and incompetent.

According to him, “the conclusions of the evaluation commission are based on subjective and biased assessments, and not founded on any factual or legal basis”.

The evaluation was started on President Maia Sandu’s initiative. The law says that if the commission finds that the Prosecutor General has done a poor job, the Superior Council of Prosecutors may propose the President to dismiss him or her.