The Justice Ministry will start the contest for the office of Prosecutor General till later this week. Justice Minister Olesea Stamate today made statements to this effect, after Prime Minister Maia Sandu had unveiled the government’s activity report for the first 100 days of mandate.    

Olesea Stamate said that the ministry she led had initiated and implemented a string of actions meant to enhance the responsibility of the actors in the justice sector. Thus, the draft on the reformation of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the bodies of the Prosecutor General’s Office was worked out and proposed for public consultations. The document sees a cut in the number of CSJ judges, change of the Court’s powers, as well as the external assessment by an independent commission of all CSJ judges, those with key offices and from other law courts, of anticorruption prosecutors, chief and deputy chief prosecutors from the structures of the Prosecutor General’s Office, writes Moldpres.

Another draft elaborated in the first 100 days of the new governance regards the amendment of the Constitution. This implies the removal of the initial term of five years for appointing the judges, unification of the procedures of their appointment and replacement of the magistrates’ general immunity by the office one. The office immunity will protect judges only in relation with the acts committed while fulfilling the job duties, not also outside the job.   

„It is quite important for us to recognize that a system brought to a critical state cannot be reset in one, two of three months; yet, we do our utmost for the citizens to feel the changes as soon as possible,” the justice minister stressed.   

Prime Minister Maia Sandu today unveiled the cabinet’s activity report for the first 100 days of mandate. The PM announced the principal achievements got in the last months, as well as some failures. The current government was sworn in office on 8 June 2019.