Bronetsky: No EU country elects a prosecutor general with the participation of international experts
12 June 18:45
The practice of involving international experts in the competition for the position of Prosecutor General is unprecedented and has no parallel in any European Union country.
This was stated on the YouTube channel "Komersant Ukrainian" by Stanislav Bronevitsky, a former prosecutor with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and a lawyer.
According to him, in EU countries, the head of the prosecutor’s office is usually appointed by the president or the relevant ministry.
“How can a person who has never worked a single day in the prosecutor’s office, has no connection to its activities, and does not understand at all the essence of how the prosecutor’s office should function, come and serve as a member of the selection committee that chooses the head? Well, that simply cannot be,” Bronevitsky stated.
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In his view, the head of the prosecutor’s office should be someone who has climbed every rung of the system—from the lowest ranks to the top. Only such a professional, he said, is capable of making well-considered decisions without outside input and does not need reports from civil society organizations on which reforms to implement.
“It is my firm conviction that the head of the prosecutor’s office should be someone who comes from within the prosecutor’s office. Then every decision they make will be well-considered; they will have thought it through thoroughly. When a person has worked for decades in the prosecutor’s office, they understand all the issues; there is no need to explain anything to them,” he concluded.
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