President Zuzana Caputova submitted to the Constitutional Court on Thursday a motion to initiate proceedings on the compliance of Paragraph 363 of the Penal Code with the Slovak Constitution and international conventions. She argues that the current wording of the paragraph and the powers available to the prosecutor-general based on it interfere disproportionately with the independence of the judiciary. The use of the paragraph has sparked numerous heated debates in Slovakia, as it is the prosecutor-general’s tool to stop investigation and there is no corrective tool in the Slovak legislation against it once 363 has been used.
Source: TASR
Zuzana Botiková, Photo: TASR
