PM says people have question marks to some judges
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The Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has stated that the most recent decision of the High Council of Justice to appoint several judges for life has triggered question marks in public.
The High Council of Justice appointed 44 judges for life today. The Council’s decision to several such judges has caused question marks in public and the governing team,” Kvirikashvili stated.
The PM mentioned the judge Manuchar Kapanadze who delivered the verdict on the high-profile Sulkhan Molashvili case, about the man who was later declared as the victim of the United National Movement government by the European Court of Human Rights.
I believe that it is necessary and essential people to receive grounded answers to the questions. The questions are legitimate,” Kvirikashvili said.
Kvirikashvili emphasized that justice is the basement of any democratic state and the Georgian people were fighting with the current government members in 2012 for fairness.
For the first time in the history of Georgia the country will have permanently appointed judges, who will serve in the role till they reach the pension age.
Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili has used his right to appoint one member to the High Council of Justice (HCOJ), an independent body responsible for unbiased judiciary, and nominated his Parliamentary Secretary Anna Dolidze for the role.
Lado Chanturia has been selected as Georgian judge in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR post for Georgian judge became vacant last year when the nine-year term of Georgia’s representative Nona Tsotsoria expired.
The European Court released statistics for 2017, which shows that the Georgian Government had communicated only 25 applications last year; another 232 applications were declared inadmissible or struck out and in 12 cases judgments were delivered.
Ten judges who have been nominated by the High Council of Justice for the Supreme Court of Georgia have triggered controversies and criticism in the public and civil sector, as several of the judges “are affiliated with the United National Movement government and biased judiciary”, several members of the HCJ and NGOs say.