The Superior Council of Prosecutors chose the winner of the contest to fill the post of prosecutor general. This is current acting prosecutor general Eduard Harunjen. The candidate is to be confirmed to post by the Head of State, IPN reports.
In the interview test on December 7, Eduard Harunjen said the image of the prosecution service has been often damaged either because of the non-professionalism of those who work in the field or because of the actions orchestrated by those featured in criminal cases initiated by prosecutors. He noted he will make effort to ensure the independence of the institution and not to allow political interference.
Eduard Harunjen now serves as first deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s Office and has held the post of prosecutor general on an interim basis since March 1 this year, after Corneliu Gurin resigned.
The contest to fill the post of prosecutor general involved six candidates – deputy prosecutor generals Igor Serbinov, Iurii Garaba and Eduard Harunjen, chief of the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office Viorel Morari, prosecutor of Chisinau municipality Igor Popa and prosecutor Ruslan Casu, of the Ciocana Prosecutor’s Office.
The Head of State can reject the candidate proposed by the Superior Council of Prosecutors only once, by explaining his refusal. When a new candidate is presented, supported by 2/3 of the Council members, the President is obliged to sign the decree to confirm the prosecutor general, who is appointed for a seven-year term, without being able to be reelected.
