IKD: KKP to announce competition for Chief State Prosecutor, four years ago it's been operating with task officers

“The announcement of this competition and the development of a merit process would be an adequate signal for positive signs of reform at KPK”, the IKD says.

Kosovo has been without the chief State Prosecutor since April 2022, and now it has been four years since the State Attorney operates with U.D. To the Chief of State. On 17 October 2023, the president of the Republic of Kosovo has announced that she has not decreed the candidate proposed by the KKP for the chief state prosecutor, turning this process into the KKP.

Unfortunately, since then, The KKP has not acted in the direction of developing a merit and transparent process for selecting the candidate for the chief state prosecutor. The KPK's inaction for years had been spreading the corporate approach of action within the KKP. Now when the KKP has been functional under the new reform, among its first actions must be announcing the competition for the chief state prosecutor and developing a transparent and merit process, so that the chief state prosecutor's name does not emerge from a controversial process. This requirement has also been given in the European Commission's latest report on Kosovo”, the Institute said.

For this reason, The IKD said it calls on the KKP as soon as possible to announce the competition for the new chief state prosecutor by fulfilling this position, which has remained vacant for nearly four years.

On the contrary, continuing this situation would further deepen institutional emptiness at the head of the State Prosecutor and damage public confidence in the independent and effective functioning of the KKP itself. Therefore, the KKP must act without delay to launch and develop a regular, transparent and merit process for selecting the new State Chief Prosecutor”. /Periscope/