Minister of Justice Fadei Nagachevski said there are clans in the judicial system of Moldova and there is a category of judges who have worked long in the system and became very toxic for the national justice sector, IPN reports.

“What I’m glad to notice is the conflict of generations. The young class of judges came and there is that confrontation with those who have worked in the system for tens of years. The young ones united around the idea of cleaning the judicial system and are more predisposed to the justice sector reformation processes, realizing that the toxic factors are those who have stayed in the system for many years,” Fadei Nagachevski stated in the program “Natalia Morari’s Politics” on TV8 channel.

The minister avoided saying what clans are there in the Moldovan justice sector, but divided the judges into several categories.

“There is the category of elder judges who are very toxic. There are elder judges who try to separate themselves from the toxic ones and to inhibit them and there is the category of young judges. There are the elder judges who consider that a red line should be drawn and the system should be reformed so that they work in accordance with the law, but there is a category of judges who try to enter into a confrontation with the political system,” noted the minister.

He considers the national judicial system was used to having a master and the judges are looking for one when this is absent.

“The judges are not interested in who the master is. They just want to have a master. They do not want to work independently. We always give signals to them: work in strict compliance with the law. They don’t hear. They try to cause particular confrontations with the political system,” stated Fadei Nagachevski.

The minister also said that there is a group of judges who intend to destabilize the judicial system and there are members of the Superior Council of Magistracy who want things to remain unchanged.