Judicial and Executive Power should See Each Other as Associates, Dameva Says

The judicial and executive power should see each other as associates, not as rivals, because that mutual institutional cooperation matters a lot for the next steps and results aiming at restoring citizen confidence, Judicial Council President Vesna Dameva said after her meeting with PM Hristijan Mickoski on Tuesday.

As she added, citizens deserve unselective justice, which can be delivered only if there is inter-institutional cooperation to detect weaknesses within certain institutions, followed by them then being taken over in the frames of one’s own competences.

The meeting, she added, was initiated by the Council regarding Mickoski’s call for constructive proposals regarding the functioning of the judiciary and restoring citizen confidence.

“The full implementation of the recommendations noted in the peer-review mission’s report depends also on the commitments all of us have. The Council has already implemented those recommendations. The recommendations noted in the report are the main roadmap for the Council. I think they should be in the direction of successful implementation of the reform process,” the Council’s President stated.

Dameva hopes the meeting is the first step towards advancing, as she said, those detected weaknesses in the judiciary.