The proposal for the election of members of the Council of Public Prosecutors will not be included in the plenary session, after the reactions that a fellow party member of Izet Majiti from the Democratic Movement, whose Vredi coalition is now in power, should sit in the body.

The information for "Sloboden Pechat" was confirmed by the president of the Commission for Elections and Appointments, Gjorgija Sajkoski, which is the parent commission and where the proposal was already voted on. Sajkoski says that new proposals for members of the Council will be chosen in a new competition.

With a letter, he informed the parliament speaker, Afrim Gashi, that he was withdrawing the proposals, and Gashi informed the deputies.

With the proposals that were voted on by the Commission, Ijet Memeti, a former member of the Council of Public Prosecutors, was supposed to be replaced by a party member of Izet Majiti.

It was about the Struga lawyer Ardian Demiri, who "passed" through the filter of the Commission on Elections and Appointments, together with Vedat Salihi, an investigator in the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption (OJOGOCK). Salihi should replace Arbr Isaku.

Demiri and Salihi were elected from non-majority communities and the conditions they have to meet are to be university professors of law, or lawyers, former judges of the Constitutional Court, international judges and other distinguished jurists.

Demiri has submitted a rich biography to the Parliament, but the Democratic Union for Integration still accused him of being a member of the Democratic Movement (DD) whose president is Izet Majiti.

– This is unacceptable and represents flagrant party interference in the judicial and prosecutorial authorities. Deputies should not accept partisanship of the prosecutor's council. We call on the civil sector, the media and the international community to react to the election of party candidates for members of the prosecutor's council. The European Union closely monitors the decisions of the Government and the Assembly. These actions take us away from Europe and European values ​​and return us to a captive state - responded by DUI.

Demiri's predecessor, Ijet Memeti, was also the deputy chairman of the Council of Public Prosecutors, who previously resigned after admitting that he used his influence through the Supreme Judge Nake Georgiev and together, for money, helped the former mayor of Novo Selo , Boro Stojchev to receive a lighter sentence. Joint photos of Mejiti and Demiri from party events appeared in the public, and in 2023 he was presented as the coordinator of the Democratic Movement in Struga.

"Sloboden Pechat" contacted the leader of DD, Izet Majiti, and we asked him if the information that Demiri is his fellow party member is correct and if he will withdraw his name as a proposal after the reactions in the public, but he did not answer the specific questions, but sent a counter- accusations.

Demiri ran for a member of the prosecutor's council, as he wrote in his biography, because of "his desire and hope for a better and more efficient public prosecution service".

- I believe that with my many years of active work, practical experience and training, I will be able to achieve that, together with the other members of this Council - writes Demiri.

Demiri explains his life in detail in his biography. He comes from a family in which his late father was a judge in the Municipal Court in Struga, and then the secretary of the Executive Council of the then Municipality of Struga, and his mother was a nurse. In 1996, he first got a job in Struga Municipality. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Skopje as an associate student while working in the municipality. He passed the bar exam in December 2008, and the following year he left his job in Struga Municipality and became a lawyer.

- I work in the legal profession continuously and very successfully even today in my private office located in Struga. During these years I have been active and have attended many seminars and trainings of all kinds and character. At the same time, I was very often called and invited to public televised debates on many national, local and international televisions as a legal expert, and I was especially active during the establishment of the Special Public Prosecutor's Office (SPO), its abolition and the preparation of the new Law on Criminal Procedure. procedure - writes Demiri, who was also a civil activist.

The second candidate who passed the Commission is Salihi from Arachinovo. His biography is more concise: he worked in the General Secretariat of the Government as a junior associate and was engaged in the Ministry of Internal Affairs - department for administrative affairs. From 2008 to 2016, he worked in the Republic Assembly as a junior associate, drafted letters with which proposals for acts and materials were submitted to the deputies, drafted decisions for convening sessions... For the next four years, he worked as a senior adviser in the former SJO, then an expert associate in the Skopje Prosecutor's Office , and since this year, an investigator in the Prosecutor's Office for prosecuting organized crime and corruption.

"European Front" MP Sally Murati contested his election at the Commission.

Murati indicated that from the attached documents there is a listing from the pension-disability insurance where it is stated that he has experience of 14 years, 10 months and 15 days, and on October 30 he submitted a new document with an experience of 15 years and one month, and the advertisement was closed on October 16.

- In my opinion, the conditions for selection must be met at the time of application, that is, additions can be made until the end of the competition or advertisement. Additional submission of evidence after the closing of the competition cannot remedy the non-fulfillment of the conditions at the time of application - said Murati.

It is curious that it was Mejti's party that accused Memeti of being one of the key figures of the corrupt DUI authority, after the former People's Ombudsman and ex-Minister of Justice settled with the Prosecutor's Office.

- The agreement reached between OJOGOKK under the leadership of Islam Abazi (whose appointment was also expressed by our strategic ally) and Ijet Memeti, a former member of the Council of Public Prosecutors and one of the key figures of the corrupt government of DUI, is the clearest proof why citizens have confidence in the judicial system of only two percent. Worthy shares the concern and deep disappointment that gripped the public after this deal with one of the key figures of the corrupt DUI government. This case is becoming a symbol of everything that is wrong with our justice system. And rightly the citizens react with anger and mistrust - Vredi reacted then.

The government announced the dissolution of the Council of Public Prosecutors and the Judicial Council, but in the report on the country's progress, the European Commission decisively said "no" to this announced reform. The government repeats that the judiciary should be de-partized and purged of SDSM and DUI cadres.

Majiti: The accusations are an attempt to stop the reforms

We understand every accusation and attack as an attempt to stop the efforts to reform the judiciary, the leader of the Democratic Movement, Izet Majiti, reacts to the accusations that Ardian Demiri is his fellow party member.

- The situation with the lack of trust in the judicial authorities in the Republic of North Macedonia is at an alarming level. We have to change the situation for the better. We must do this with people who have knowledge, credibility and authority. We understand every accusation and attack as an attempt to stop the efforts to reform the judiciary. There are political groups and criminals who want things in the judiciary and prosecutor's office to remain as they are now, in order to protect them. Citizens and we want change, we want justice, we want order for everyone. Nobody's attack will shake us in our intention to make a just state for Albanians and all citizens, says Mejiti.