DPS: Removal of prosecutors through discrimination and political purge, compromises the state's legal system

The decision of the Prosecutorial Council to remove individual prosecutors from the prosecutorial system in a discriminatory way exposed the real function of the new convocation of this body, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) assessed.

"Right now it can be seen that the new members of the Prosecutor's Council were not elected to carry out some kind of reform and the so often announced fight against all forms of crime, but to be an organ, that is, a tool in the hands of the new government, which, regardless of law violations and abuses from various level, bring the prosecution under its control. Several times during the last year, the expert body of the Council of Europe, the Venice Commission, warned that it is not good to change the complete composition of the Prosecutor's Council due to the change of the ruling majority," the DPS statement states.

They add that the participation of government representatives in the Prosecutor's Council is also problematic.

"However, the parliamentary majority ignored these recommendations, because the change in the composition of the Prosecutor's Council for this government was not a legal but exclusively a political issue. The compromising of judicial power, through political bribery in the highest legal institutions, damages the reputation of the state and undermines its legal system. Political revanchism and behavior that deviates from the practice of European countries, the prosecutor's office turns out to be a political prey over which various political and parapolitical subjects are fighting, moving our country further and further away from the priority goal - membership in the EU," the DPS statement concludes.