The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Achilleas Demetriades, greets, the position taken by Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides on the need to separate the powers of the Attorney General as a legal advisor to the government and a public prosecutor with exclusive power to prosecute.
In a statement, Demetriades said that this position of Odysseus Michaelides and the concurrence of others in recent times, is identical to the specific proposal that he submitted himself since the summer.[/B] The respective systems of administering justice in Commonwealth countries have evolved since the days of the British Empire.
Mr. Demetriades' position is specific, as stated, and is as follows: By a constitutional amendment to Article 113, the exclusive powers of the Attorney General, to be separated. This, he stresses, is the essence of public debate. "With proposals to address the conflict of interest in the institutions that in the justice system "all come down to one person with two hats, the Attorney General," as the Auditor General points out."
He goes on to underline that the European Commission is taking Cyprus to the EU Court of Justice over the cases surrounding the gold passports and notes that "in serious cases of high-level corruption, there are no results" from the Attorney General's Office of Cyprus. It is no coincidence, he stresses, that the two, Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General, were ministers in the Anastasiades government who approved gold passports.
In conclusion, he says that "it is time to take decisions, not just make statements and campaign promises that will be forgotten after the elections. The parties should act immediately to get the constitutional amendment done before the February elections. The Honourable State needs the institutional counterweights to root out corruption.
Cyprus deserves better!"
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