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PG Lazar: Amending Justice laws to surely disrupt Romanian Justice
Romania's Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar stated on Thursday, at the seat of the Superior Council of Magistrates (CSM), that the amendment of the justice law package "will disrupt the Romanian Justice" and "the desire to keep this domain in check is stronger than reason."
Present at the CSM headquarters, PG Lazar was asked by journalists how he explains the way deputies voted the amendments to the law on magistrates' statute.
"I could not characterise the activity of the Chamber of Deputies, but one thing I can tell you. The amendment to Justice laws, in the context that we all see, in these inadequate conditions and without any impact studies on the results it might produce, will most certainly disrupt the Romanian Justice. This is something anyone of good faith can notice, one doesn't need to be a legal expert to understand these things. It appears though, that the desire to keep the justice in check is stronger than reason," the Prosecutor General said.
He added that the Justice Minister should never tell prosecutors what to do in the course of investigations.
"The administrative authority should be the only with direct higher competence and that should be all. It should see to the human resources required by the prosecution, the financial resources the Public Prosecution Office needs to work properly, whether the relations with the litigant parties are correct and that's it," Lazar said upon leaving the Supreme Council of Magistracy, when asked about the amendment according to which the prosecutors should act under the direct authority of the Justice Minister.