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The non-governmental organization Center for Judicial Research (CEPRIS) warned on Dec. 24 of the danger of passing the five draft judicial laws nominated for urgent parliamentary procedure by an MP of the Serbian Progressive Party and chairman of the Committee for the Judiciary, State Governance and Local Self-administration, Ugljesa Mrdic, which would, as they assessed, strengthen the influence of executive authorities on the judiciary.
“The citizens of Serbia and the representatives of judicial institutions were unable to form a stance on the mentioned drafts because they have never been put on public debate, which is impermissible, considering that the drafts include modifications that deeply intervene into the country’s judicial system,” it was declared in the NGO’s statement.
They added that, a month ago, Mrdic also announced the passing of a contested bill on the “reorganization of the judiciary” that would lead to the abolishing of the Judiciary for Organized Crime, which the European Commission has already reacted to by stating that “any possible change in the organization of the prosecution should strengthen that prosecution.”
CEPRIS believes that the new draft laws, which have not even been made public, were “part of the ongoing attempt to nullify” the 2022 constitutional reforms, carried out within the process of European integration with the aim of establishing guarantees for the prosecutors and courts to be independent from executive power.
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