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Mickoski calls for changes in the Judicial Council of North Macedonia
2025-02-06 17:25:23 / BOTA
North Macedonia's Prime Minister, Hristijan Mickoski, announced on Thursday that MPs from his party, VMRO-DPMNE, will submit a motion to the Parliament to dismiss some members of the Judicial Council, which he called a "bastion of corruption and injustice."
Mickoski stressed in a post on the social network Facebook that "the state and citizens need justice, and [North] Macedonia must fight against its corrupt swamp."
He later told reporters that "the blow to the forehead means that all that is under the competence of the Assembly is the appointment of those members of the Judicial Council. Where they are elected, the motion of no confidence should also be voted on."
On the other hand, the President of the Judicial Council, Aleksandar Kambovski, surprised by the Prime Minister's intention, said that he hopes that the Parliament and the Government will work according to the Constitution.
"For the first time I heard this from you. Until now we were in session. I have given statements, regarding the dismissal of the Judicial Council, the only place where it is provided for is in the Law on the Judicial Council. Initiatives can be submitted to the Assembly, anyone can submit initiatives," said Kambovski.
Kambovski, in an interview given to Radio Free Europe on January 28, emphasized that, according to the Law on the Judicial Council, only this council can dismiss its members.
"I have not come across other laws that provide for such a possibility for dismissal in another procedure," said Kambovski.
The VMRO-DPMNE initiative concerns the five members elected by the Assembly.
"We cannot do a complete dismantling, nor discover anomalies in such a short time, but we can elect a Judicial Council that will objectively, without party conditioning, be able to clarify this political quagmire and be a kind of monitor of how judges behave, what decisions they make and why," said Mickoski.
The Judicial Council of North Macedonia consists of 15 members.
Their selection is done in several ways: three members are elected by the Assembly by majority vote, two others are proposed by the president of the state and approved by the Assembly, where one must be a representative of the smaller ethnic communities, and eight others are elected by the judges in direct elections.
Meanwhile, the other two members, the President of the Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice, may participate in the sessions, but do not have the right to vote.
The dissolution of the Judicial Council and the Council of Public Prosecutors were part of the pre-election promises of VMRO-DPMNE leader Mickoski, who took over the leadership of the Government in May last year.
The Macedonian opposition has also reacted to Mickoski's initiative.
The leader of the opposition Social Democratic League (LSDM), Venko Filipçe, said that his party agrees with judicial reforms, but not, as he said, through arbitrary actions.
"But, reforms that will mean an independent, efficient judiciary that will ensure justice. We must not allow the justice that citizens demand to turn into a new partisanship, and an invasion through the change of the Judicial Council by the Government," he emphasized.
SDSM demands that the next steps in the justice system be taken with the consensus of all political parties in the Assembly./ REL
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