Pre-Vetting Commission issues decisions for 90 per cent of candidates for officer of member of Superior Council of Magistracy, Superior Council of Prosecutors

Chisinau, 27 July /MOLDPRES/ - A number of 67 candidates have participated in the process of extraordinary evaluation, carried out by the Pre-Vetting Commission, in order to establish their eligibility for the office of member of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) and Superior Council of Prosecutors (CSP).   

The Commission finished the evaluation of 59 out of those 67 candidates and issued almost 90 per cent out of all decisions. At the same time, the decisions on the group II of candidates for CSM from among non-judges, put forward by the parliament, are under elaboration and approval.

Thus, the Commission assessed the financial and ethic integrity of 28 career judges, 17 prosecutors and 22 representatives of the civil society with professional experience in the law field or other relevant sector, as follows: 21 candidates non-judges for CSM, nominated by the parliament and one candidate non-prosecutor, put up by the Academy of Sciences for the office of CSP member    

As much as 36 per cent (24 candidates) out of 67 ones were women and 64 per cent (43 candidates) were men. Sixteen out of those 59 candidates, whose evaluation is finished for the moment, received decisions on passage of the evaluation and 43 got decisions of non-passage. Those 43 decisions on failure to pass the evaluation regarded 14 situations of withdrawal from the contest or of non-submission of documents, which disqualified the candidates, while the other 29 candidates did not pass the evaluation following the carrying out of the entire process of verification. Seventy nine per cent out of all 67 candidates registered for the contests for CSM and CSP went through the full process of evaluation, i.e. 52 candidates.   

As for the categories of subjects evaluated, five judges and three non-judges out of 40 candidates for CSM passed the evaluation, which accounts for a level of passage of the evaluation of 18 per cent for judges and 25 per cent for non-judges. The rate on the candidates non-judges for CSM can be changed with the issuance of the last decisions on the group II of candidates, put forward by the parliament. Hence, the results show a rate of passage of the evaluation of 41 per cent among prosecutors and a single candidacy on behalf of the civil society, put up by the Academy of Sciences, also passed the evaluation. At the same time, the candidates withdrew in three out of those ten decisions on non-passage of the evaluation and in one case the candidate failed to submit the declaration for five years in time.      

Fifty two out of all 67 candidates evaluated by the Pre-Vetting Commission till 27 July this year participated in the Commission’s public hearings and two candidates asked to be evaluated exclusively based on the materials accumulated by the Commission, opting not to take part in hearings in public meeting. In four cases, some of the hearings were held in closed meeting.  

Till present, 18 candidates for CSM from among judges, four non-judges and five candidates prosecutors for CSP, who did not passed the evaluation, have contested the decisions by the Pre-Vetting Commission at the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ). CSJ maintained the decisions by the Pre-Vetting Commission in two of these cases, while the other 25 contestations are under consideration.