The Council of Prosecutors of the Slovak Republic is asking members of Parliament to consider their vote in connection with the parliamentary draft amendment that changes the rules for the election of the prosecutor general, informed Andrea Predajnova, spokeswoman of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Slovak Republic. According to the Council, the possibility that a candidate who is not a prosecutor could become prosecutor general calls into question the independent and control position of the prosecutor's office within the system of state bodies. They also ask MPs to consider, when voting, the possibility of abusing and calling into disrepute the office of prosecutor general in view of his/her possible dismissal pursuant to the proposed amendment. On the basis of a parliamentary draft, according to prosecutors, this would depend solely on the current political will of any political-parliamentary grouping. "As prosecutors, we do not express our views and do not interfere in political events, but we cannot remain indifferent to the constant denigrating attacks on all prosecutors stemming from the individual moral failures of some individual prosecutors, whom we ourselves do not want to remain in the ranks of prosecutors," the letter states.
Source: SITA
