Constitutional expert Teodor Cîrnaț believes that the current justice reform, as proposed by the new government, has no chance of succeeding. In his opinion, this is because it is proposed by people who do not have the human capacity and the political will to implement it. And the public policy expert Ștefan Gligor is of the opinion that the current reform will not bring results. The opinions were expressed at "Time of Expertise" show on Jurnal TV, IPN reports.
"If it is to commence the reform of judicial system, one must start from the bodies that appoint these people. Because, the current law on the reform of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), in my view, is unconstitutional. In accordance with what is currently proposed, an independent commission for the evaluation of CSJ judges is created. The only body that appoints, dismisses, promotes judges, in accordance with the Constitution, is the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM). And any bodies created by Parliament, Government, in parallel with the CSM, undermine from the beginning the constitutional competence granted to the CSM”, says Teodor Cîrnaț.
And public policy expert Ștefan Gligor says he sees that the current justice reform proposed by the new government will bring no results. "I believe that today we need the reform of the CSM, the reform of the CSM bodies, which are just as compromised as the composition of the Council. All these CSM bodies must end their mandate and we should change the rules and the way of organizing the elections among judges, attaining this in a fully transparent manner, according to new rules, showing the judges that they are truly independent, but, at the same time, cleansing the system of heinous people. This commission for evaluation and testing should intervene here as well,” said Stefan Gligor.
Former Chief Prosecutor of Chisinau Municipality Ivan Diacov believes that immediately after coming to power, the new government should have dismissed the staff of the Superior Council of Prosecutors and the Superior Council of Magistracy, and organized free and fair elections, "under close scrutiny ", and then "judges and prosecutors would have voted more freely and more or less independent people would have been elected."