The new members of the Superior Council of Prosecutors (SCP) will have their first meeting on Wednesday. They are to elect the chairperson of the Council from among the prosecutor members, IPN reports.

There is only one issue on the agenda of the SCP meeting – administrative procedures related to the first meeting of the Superior Council of Prosecutors. The meeting was set to start at 2 p.m.

At the General Assembly of Prosecutors held last December 2023, five new SCP members were elected. These are Dumitru Obadă – on behalf of prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office and Aliona Nesterov, Eduard Panea, Elena Roșior and Olesea Virlan – on behalf of the territorial and specialized prosecutor’s offices.

Under the new legislation, the SCP will be composed of 10 members. A number of ex-officio members were excluded. Thus, five members are from among prosecutors, while four members are selected at a contest from among civil society: one – by the President of the country, one – by the Parliament, one – by the Cabinet and one – by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. The chairperson of the Superior Council of Magistracy remains a de jure member of the SCP. The Ombudsperson and the Prosecutor General are no longer de jure members of the Superior Council of Prosecutors from January 1, 2024, while the Minister of Justice will stop being a de jure member of the SCP on January 1, 2026.