Many times promised, the reform of the prosecution could well materialize under the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. The new Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti said Wednesday before senators to have had the assurance of the President of the Republic that there would be a constitutional revision before the end of the mandate concerning the status of the prosecution.
This reform - which had been suspended until further notice by the current Head of State - provides for prosecutors to be appointed, like judges, on the "assent" of the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM), an independent body. . In practice, this has already been the case since 2012, but in theory, the executive can ignore the advice of the CSM, which daily fuels suspicions of political instrumentalisation of prosecutions.
Magistrates awaiting this reform
This reform supposes a constitutional revision, with the agreement of the National Assembly and the Senate meeting in congress. When he took office on July 7, Eric Dupond-Moretti said he wanted to be "the Keeper of the Seals who will finally carry the long-awaited reform of the prosecution."
“The magistrates, and particularly those of the prosecution, are awaiting this reform. (...) It is a question of inscribing, of engraving in stone in the Constitution, a practice that this power has always respected, ”he repeated to the senators.
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