President Igor Dodon announces the creation of a "council of justice experts, of national and international level, politically unaffiliated, that will work independently attached to the President of the Republic of Moldova". The basic task of the council will be to "review the legislative initiatives regarding the judiciary reform, as well as the laws in this area that are to be enacted", IPN reports.

According to the president, the idea to set up a council comes "to endorse the goal of having a truly effective justice reform". Igor Dodon supports the reform that will ensure a genuine justice, without lists and preferences, and that will establish a justice system worthy of the people’s confidence.

The head of state contends that all those who tarnish the image of the judicial system and the judicial self-administration body contributing to its "enslavement", and those who "passively witnessed the committed illegalities " must leave the system.

"We can no longer tolerate corrupt people among the judges and prosecutors, who are suspected of being the architects of the schemes of embezzlement of state patrimony and citizens’ property. We cannot implement a real reform without revamping the current CSM, which was one of the basic elements of the captured state,” declared Igor Dodon.