Arise: Government's decision to supplement special prosecutors, dangerous precedent and intervention in the justice system

A government's eventual decision to this effect is a dangerous practice and presents intervention in the independence of the justice system.

Get up! and GLPS consider that the decision on such additions is intervention in the special Prosecution's financial independence and openly expresses the clientelec concept of government handling the justice sector. Making such a decision in Anti-Corruption Week is besides a dangerous precedent, also harmful to the prosecutorial system itself. Based on legislation in effect, the Assembly is the one that has the competence to determine funding levels in the prosecutorial system and that, according to the Prosecutorial Council proposal, not the Government. Any intervention in this decision-making district, much more through a government decision, not the budget law, constitutes interference in the independence of the independent prosecutorial system and is a customer concept of dealing with prosecutors”, it is said in response.

Also from Opinion No. 18 (front. 51) of the European Judges Consultative Council (CCJE), government decisions on salary increases are considered interventions in the independence of the justice system.

Organization stand up! and GLPS through this response require the Government of the Republic of Kosovo to stop such precedents.

“The same as an eventual decision for the additions of the Kosovo Republic Special Prosecutor's Prosecutorship, as well as for salaries, are unplanned actions and without any financial and functional preliminary analysis. A Government devoted to the rule of law provides examples of increased transparency, full submission to the independence of the justice system, the creation of necessary legal infrastructure, and the provision of conditions for preventing any political interference in this latter” is further said in response.

Based on the European Commission's progress reports (report for the country), the judicial and prosecutorial system continue to be politically influenced for years and that today's eventual decision is only considered the continuation of such logic.

Through this reaction, get up! and GLPS also seek from the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council (KPK) and the Kosovo Judiciary Council ( To react to such decisions and not become obedient organs to the government and harmful principles for the independence of the justice system.

The organisation Arise and GLPS recalls that despite the decision to raise salaries for the justice sector by the Government of Kosovo still has not produced any sustainable effects on performance, efficiency and efficiency of the justice system.

“So despite the rising salaries of prosecutors and judges, we still have no results in the justice system, in particular in the fight against corruption and organised crime. Therefore, for such decisions the Government of the Republic of Kosovo must be cautious, maintain and respect the independence of the justice system, legal and constitutional provisions in force, and also respect the expectations of the Progress Report, thus exercising decision on them in line with the legal and constitutional provisions, as well as the requirements and recommendations of local civil society organisations operating in this area and those in international”, it is said in response.

Otherwise, a day earlier Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj warned that special prosecutors from Tuesday would also have pay extensions that, according to him, would give them more confidence to discover and pursue acts of corruption.