Members of the public association “Center of Initiatives and Public Authorities Monitoring” and of the association “Justice and Uprightness” called on Parliament to propose the draft law on the prosecution service for public debates that will involve former prosecutors, judges and representatives of the academic community and civil society. Head of the Center of Initiatives and Public Authorities Monitoring Ion Dron, in a news conference at IPN, said the bill has a major social impact and the haste by which this bill is promoted raises concerns.
Ion Dron noted that the provisions of the new law do nothing but maintain and even extend the prosecution service’s dependence on the political class by the new mechanism for naming the prosecutor general. Moreover, the new law will limit the maneuvering space of the inferior prosecutors and, consequently, these will be controlled by their superiors.
Ion Dron also said that the strategy for reforming the prosecution service was published last September, while two months later the bill was sent to the Venice Commission for appraisal. The laws of such a scope are not promoted at such a speed.
The head of the public association “Justice and Uprightness” Pavel Midrigan said they will submit an alternative bill on the prosecution service to Parliament. Under this alternative bill, the prosecutors will have the status of judge, as in some of the European states, while the prosecutor general will be chosen by the General Assembly of Prosecutors by the votes of 50 prosecutors plus 1 and confirmed by Parliament.
