Completion of the Constitutional court and the Council of Prosecutors

Attorney General Naser Ajdari was elected as a new constitutional judge at yesterday’s parliamentary session. At the same time, lawyers Angel Solev and Angele Ilievski were elected members of the Council of Public Prosecutors, thus completing the composition of the two judicial institutions that for a long time functioned in incomplete composition.

The Constitutional Court consists of nine judges, while Ajdari comes to the last vacant seat, that is, Ismail Darlisa’s position. Ajdari is elected on the proposal of the Parliamentary Committee on Elections and Appointments and is from the minority communities. The term of the constitutional judges in office is nine years without the right to re-election. Solev and Ilievski, meanwhile, will fill the last two vacant seats in the Council of Public Prosecutors, which was recently criticized by US Ambassador Jess Baily of nepotism and conflict of interests. The public prosecutors’ council is made of 11 members, four of whom parliament. The members of this body have a term of four years, with the right to re-election.

The two Skopje lawyers are entering the Council as a replacement to the former constitutional judge Zoran Sulejmanov, who retired, and Saso Vasilevski, who was appointed as head of MEPSO last summer.