Specialists: The motives for closing the special justice are manipulative – Society – Bulgaria – NOVA News
The abolition of specialized criminal justice in any way does not constitute judicial reform, but the creation of suspicion of satisfying illegitimate goals that have nothing to do with actual public needs and hours. This is stated in a written statement of the Specialized Criminal Court and the Appellate Specialized Court of the Court, conducted to the Minister of Justice in the public discussion of the draft law amending the Judiciary Act and the Criminal Procedure Code.
It is noted that the reasons and partial accompanying the proposed legal changes are not based on rationality and reasonable reasons, but on incorrect statistics (the clearest example of which is the tenfold reduction in the number of cases heard in the SNA), on manipulative interpretation data, beyond their actual statistical significance, as well as the misrepresentation of the content of various international reports, which do not criticize the specialized justice in Bulgaria.
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The position points out that the idea of serious intervention in the judiciary, based on untruths, is at least extremely unacceptable and inevitably leads to distrust of the author of the bill and the results pursued. In the position chronologically with the listed assessments of the EC in the report on the Mechanism for Cooperation and Verification, on the Mechanism for the Rule of Law, etc., in the period 2007 – 2020, in which, after being established in specialized courts, sustainable progress is reported of Bulgaria on the indicator of organized crime and the monitoring of the country on the same indicator has been temporarily terminated.
The opinion is expressed that the bill is based on a wrong and short-sighted concept, in which the normative regime from before 2012 returns to the activity for organized crime, which is less effective, and separately, instead of closed courts, in practice it is created a new specialized justice designed exclusively for the highest echelons of power.
The negative impact that will allow the opening of specialized jurisdictions on citizens is also considered. The position states that the motives of the bill are populist promises, without depicting the principle of separation of powers, the real situation and the legal possibility to determine justice in the country.
The emphasis is on the fact that the implementation of such promises requires not a quasi, real judicial reform, with the opportunity to improve and speed up the administration of justice, which all Bulgarian citizens expect. It deeply modernizes procedural and substantive law, introduces pragmatic solutions and abandons strong criticism from all international observers of extreme formalism, assists in judicial expertise, emerges from the vicious circle of blocked staff growth caused by a number of previous legislative failures. closing situationally inconvenient for your power.
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