Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic has new Vice-President

On the Judicial Council´s agenda of its meeting in July  was the proposal for the election of the Vice-President of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic. This post has been vacant since the beginning of July this year after the former Vice-President Ján Gandžala resigned. Three members of the Judicial Council, namely Marián Fečík, Jaroslav Klátik and Magdaléna Hromcová submitted a proposal for a candidate to fill this post. They nominated Ayše Pružinec Eren, a judicial member of the Judicial Council who was also the only candidate for this post. Her many years of judicial and professional experience, combined with her organisational skills and high moral credentials, convinced them to submit her for a post of Vice-President of the Judicial Council. Since 2017, she has also been the Vice-President of the Association of Judges of Slovakia, which ensures continuous contact with all judges in Slovakia. Support for this proposal was finally expressed in a Council´s vote by 11 of the 12 members of the Judicial Council present, and thus Ayše Pružinec Eren became the new Vice-President of the highest constitutional body of judicial legitimacy. "I am happy that the Judicial Council elected a female Vice-President today, with all the votes of the members present, when only the candidate herself abstained. I am convinced that our cooperation will be beneficial not only for the effective functioning of the Judicial Council, but above all for the entire judiciary. Ayše Pružinec Eren is a long-standing judge who is able to identify the problems of the judiciary and, above all, to propose effective solutions to them," said the President of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic, Marcela Kosová. According to the words of the new Vice-President, a member of the Judicial Council "is not supposed to promote the politics, ideology and religious sentiments of the ruling party, but quite the opposite. He is to promote the independence, impartiality and professionalism of the judiciary". Her activity in this position is also intended to help restore confidence in the Slovak judiciary. "By being active in the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic, we can prove that judges decide according to the law and not according to someone else's ideas," says the new Vice-President of the Judicial Council, Ayše Pružinec Eren.