Council for selecting Prosecutor General candidates elects new Chair
Shota Tkeshelashvili will chair the Prosecutorial Council for a term of two years. Photo: IPN
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The Prosecutorial Council, a 15-member independent body in charge of selecting candidates for the position of the country’s Prosecutor General, on Thursday elected Shota Tkeshelashvili, its member and the Deputy Prosecutor of Tbilisi, as its new chief.
Tkeshelashvili, who has worked on several positions in the Prosecutor General’s Office since 2007, will head the Council for a term of two years.
He was the only applicant to the post presented by fellow Council member Aleksandre Mukasashvili, with the candidacy unanimously approved by the body.
The Council, which is also responsible for conducting disciplinary proceedings against deputies of the Prosecutor General, was earlier subordinated to the Justice Ministry, before the country’s new constitution made it an independent body directly accountable to the Parliament in 2018.
The Conference of Prosecutors in Georgia has elected three members of the 15-member Prosecutorial Council, the body tasked with selecting the country’s future Prosecutor Generals, the Prosecution Service of Georgia announced on Friday.
The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday presented its nine-month report covering the body’s efforts including work against corruption, domestic violence and “criminal underworld”, as well as a vision and action plan to further increase its “institutional and organisational” effectiveness.
Former Georgian Prosecutor General Irakli Shotadze, who resigned in 2018, has been selected among four shortlisted candidates for the same post by the Prosecutorial Council earlier today. Now the council will present Shotadze in parliament for a vote.
Former Georgian Prosecutor General Irakli Shotadze, who resigned in 2018, has been registered to run for the post again after former Chief Prosecutor Shalva Tadumadze was approved as a lifetime judge of the Georgian Supreme Court in December 2019.