US EditionAustria - Government Agrees on Federal Attorney's Office
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Theoretically, a politician could save a friend from an indictment. Now the government wants to create an independent federal prosecutor's office and thereby end this European special case.
After tough negotiations, the government has agreed to establish an independent state prosecutor's office. Which means that until the last minute. Then the agreement. Austria gets an independent and non-legislative state prosecutor's office. A tripartite body, elected for six years. It was a long run back and forth. Between SPÖ, NEOS on the one hand and ÖVP on the other. The chancellor's party had already wrestled with the Greens to find a solut…
The Austrian government has agreed to establish an independent and non-referral federal prosecutor's office.
In Austria, the Ministry of Justice is at the head of the public prosecutors' offices – but probably not for long. The government now wants to establish a new supervisory body, thus preventing political interference.
The right of instruction is therefore to be transferred from the Minister of Justice to a collegial dreiersenat. The panel is to be elected for six years and the chair is to change every two years.
Die Presse
www.kleinezeitung.atJust in time for today's Council of Ministers, ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos have reached an agreement. A concrete bill has yet to be drawn up.
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