The Judicial Council is not part of the political battle
The President of the Judicial Council, Marcela Kosová, has repeatedly and strongly warned MP Maria Kolíková not to make the Judicial Council a cheap instrument of political battle based on her political preferences and feelings. Maria Kolíková's statement in an interview with the SITA News Agency that 'the Judicial Council is not currently acting in such a way that it can be said to be unbiased, impartial and that judges as a whole could trust it, that it cares about them, that it is not under pressure' is unworthy of any politician, let alone a former Minister of Justice, and an obvious political attack on a constitutional body of judicial legitimacy.
If Maria Kolíková has any verified information that the Judicial Council is not trusted by the judges, she should make it public. "Maria Kolíková did not communicate with the judges even when she was Minister of Justice, she was not interested in the opinions of the judges even in such an important area as the change of the judicial map. Now, in her position as an ordinary member of parliament, she repeatedly attacks the Judicial Council and imaginatively covers herself with judges, just to score political points", stressed the President of the Judicial Council Marcela Kosová.
The Judicial Council has responded to all attacks on judges indiscriminately since Marcela Kosová became its president on May 14, 2024.
It is unacceptable for the member of parliament to say about the members of the Judicial Council elected by the Parliament and appointed by the Government and the President that "...what I am saying now is that there has been a selection of people who obviously, even from the fact that if you look at their CVs and what is behind them, they are simply, even with regard to the way the Judicial Council is behaving today, they are not behaving in a disinterested, impartial way. I think that needs to be named'. Apparently, Maria Kolíková judges the election and appointment of "non-judges" to the Judicial Council according to the saying "I judge you by yourself".
"If Maria Kolíková claims that "...somehow those values that the president has, that the Parliament has and that the government has, are transferred there through their representatives to the judicial council", then her values as a former Minister of Justice and member of the government are consistent with, for example, the fact that the President of the Judicial Council has the right to screen judges or can produce resolutions that the Judicial Council has never adopted", concluded Marcela Kosová.
If Maria Kolíková has any verified information that the Judicial Council is not trusted by the judges, she should make it public. "Maria Kolíková did not communicate with the judges even when she was Minister of Justice, she was not interested in the opinions of the judges even in such an important area as the change of the judicial map. Now, in her position as an ordinary member of parliament, she repeatedly attacks the Judicial Council and imaginatively covers herself with judges, just to score political points", stressed the President of the Judicial Council Marcela Kosová.
The Judicial Council has responded to all attacks on judges indiscriminately since Marcela Kosová became its president on May 14, 2024.
It is unacceptable for the member of parliament to say about the members of the Judicial Council elected by the Parliament and appointed by the Government and the President that "...what I am saying now is that there has been a selection of people who obviously, even from the fact that if you look at their CVs and what is behind them, they are simply, even with regard to the way the Judicial Council is behaving today, they are not behaving in a disinterested, impartial way. I think that needs to be named'. Apparently, Maria Kolíková judges the election and appointment of "non-judges" to the Judicial Council according to the saying "I judge you by yourself".
"If Maria Kolíková claims that "...somehow those values that the president has, that the Parliament has and that the government has, are transferred there through their representatives to the judicial council", then her values as a former Minister of Justice and member of the government are consistent with, for example, the fact that the President of the Judicial Council has the right to screen judges or can produce resolutions that the Judicial Council has never adopted", concluded Marcela Kosová.
