The Kosovo Law Institute (KLI) has called on the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council (KPK), in accordance with its constitutional and legal powers, to announce the vacancy for a new Chief State Prosecutor.
IKL has emphasized that the announcement of this competition and the development of a merit-based process would be an adequate signal of positive signs of reform in the KPC.
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Letter to the Reader — Why We're Asking for Your Support Contribute"Kosovo has been without a Chief State Prosecutor since April 2022. Thus, it has now been four years since the State Prosecutor has been functioning as an Acting Chief State Prosecutor. On October 17, 2023, the President of the Republic of Kosovo announced that she had not decreed the candidate proposed by the KPK for Chief State Prosecutor, returning this process to the KPK. Unfortunately, since that time, the KPK has not acted towards developing a meritorious and transparent process for the selection of the candidate for Chief State Prosecutor," the Institute's press release states.
According to the KLI, now that the KPK has been functionalized according to the new reform, among its first actions should be the announcement of a competition for Chief State Prosecutor and the development of a transparent and meritorious process, so that the name of the Chief State Prosecutor does not emerge from a contested process.
"On the contrary, the continuation of this situation would further deepen the institutional vacuum at the head of the State Prosecutor and would damage public trust in the independent and effective functioning of the KPK itself. Therefore, the KPK must act without delay to initiate and develop a regular, transparent and meritorious process for the selection of the new Chief State Prosecutor," the IKL further states.
Currently, the acting chief state prosecutor is Agron Qalaj.