The prosecutor’s fear of the executive and legislature resides in the method in which the prosecutors are appointed and in the social guarantees provided to them, lawyer Vladislav Gribincea said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. According to Gribincea, the way of appointing prosecutors and the social guarantees have not changed in the past few years. The Prosecutor General is named by the Parliament on the proposal of the speaker. Gribincea says that it can happen that the post of Prosecutor General is taken up by a person that is not familiar with the activity of the Prosecutor General’s Office, as in the case of the previous prosecutor Valeriu Balaban. “This means that the Parliament decides whom to give the post of prosecutor regardless of the opinion of the Prosecutor General’s Office. If the prosecutors had been consulted, Balaban would have never become prosecutor general,” Gribincea said. The deputy prosecutor generals, the hierarchically inferior prosecutors are also named by the Parliament, after consulting with the prosecutor general. The hierarchically inferior prosecutors can be dismissed by the prosecutor general at his/her discretion, the cited source said. According to the lawyer, the executive and legislature can influence the activity of the Prosecutor General’s Office or the prosecutor general is inclined to obey the authorities.