An amendment calling for the prohibition of appointing judicial officers in public positions of responsibility for four years after their retirement, was submitted by the PASOK Change Passage Group “in the context of institutional initiatives to strengthen the distinction of powers and shielding independence. of justice, announced by Nikos Androulakis. “

The amendment was tabled in the bill of the Ministry of Rural Development on “Inter -professional Organizations” which is being introduced tomorrow for discussion and voting in the plenary of the House.

As stated in the causal report her amendment: “In recent years, the phenomenon has been heavily observed, judicial officers after their retirement of the judiciary to be appointed to public positions or independent authorities. It is thus denoted in many cases by creating ethical and substantive issues, a relationship between the governments and the judicial power that it must remain independent by serving the interests of the citizens.

In this way and regardless of the intentions of each of the judicial officers in how the duties are assigned to them, the most important institutional feature of justice, the independence her.

The proposed provision introduces that necessary measure (four (4) years of over and conservation of some of the incompatibilities) to There are no suspicions of correlation of the exercise of judicial duties with subsequent appointment of the left -wing judicial officer. “