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Bulgaria's Constitutional Court asked about the legitimacy of the Supreme Judicial Council

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Bulgaria's Prosecutor General has submitted a request to the Constitutional Court to interpret whether it is admissible for the Supreme Judicial Council, whose mandate has expired, to make personnel decisions for the senior magistrates in the prosecution and the court.

The request also raises the questions whether the functions of the highest judicial staff body are terminated with the expiration of the council's mandate and whether it is permissible to form a new one with the members elected in 2022 from the professional quotas of judges and prosecutors.

The constitutionally established mandate of the members of the Supreme Judicial Council is 5 years. The current Supreme Judicial Council was constituted on 3 October 2017, and its mandate expired on 3 October 2022.

The inquiry comes as a procedure has begun in the Supreme Judicial Council to remove the chief prosecutor.



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