The legal commission for appointments and immunities said public debates on the bill on the prosecution service, put forward by the Government, will be held in the Parliament Building on May 26, IPN reports.

The debates will involve representatives of public institutions and civil society and other interested persons. The bill and the informative note to it are available on the Parliament’s website.

The bill on the prosecution service provides that the prosecutor general will be named for one term of seven years. The candidate will be selected at a contest organized by the Supreme Council of Prosecutors. The person who will get the highest score will be proposed to the head of state for confirmation. The President will be able to reject the candidate fielded by the Supreme Council of Prosecutors only once.

The prosecution system will consist of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the specialized prosecutor’s offices and the local ones. The Prosecutor General’s Office will remain a mainly administrative institution. In addition to the Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, there will be created the Prosecutor’s Office for Special Cases that will investigate offenses committed by criminal organizations, terrorism and torture-related offences instead of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The bill also stipulates that the salaries of prosecutors will be raised, in accordance with the pays of judges.