The Association of Public Prosecutors has criticized the Constitutional Court’s “failure” to take a stance at Wednesday’s session on whether to initiate a procedure for assessing legislation concerning prosecutor salaries.
As it says, that represents grounds for serious concern not only among public prosecutors, but also among the entire public because for the first time, the independence of the Public Prosecutor’s Office as an institution with a special constitutional position was brought into question.
The danger of allowing direct control of the executive power over the Prosecutor’s Office, in the specific case, is manifested through the debate on the Law on Salaries of Public Prosecutors, but further down the line, it will inevitably be projected also into all other segments of the prosecutorial work and will cause a complete violation of the position of the Office in the system, the Association assesses.