He said he wants the amendment to end the discussion that has been underway since the government dismissed then supreme state attorney Marie Benesova in 2005. The draft amendment is also to strengthen the independence of the supreme state attorney by modifying his/her appointing and dismissing and by setting a time limit to his/her mandate. The president of the republic would join the government in appointing the supreme state attorney whose mandate would be five to seven years. The mandate would not square with the government term and the supreme state attorney could not be re-appointed. Pospisil said the bill determines conditions for the dismissal of the supreme state attorney similarly like elsewhere in Europe. He said that according to Qatari prince not allowed to enter Czech judiciary dispute-court ...
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Czech press survey ... available information, the bill could also be supported by the opposition. The Social Democrat-led government dismissed Benesova in September 2005 on the proposal of then justice minister Pavel Nemec (Freedom Union-Democratic Union, US-DEU). Benesova was supreme state attorney for almost seven years.
Nemec was in dispute with her which, he said, was caused by a difference of opinions on the office's activity. Nemec claimed Benesova behaved more like a representative of a political party than like an independent attorney. Benesova is now the opposition Social Democrats' (CSSD) shadow justice minister. She has been a CSSD member since end-2007. Benesova also often disagreed with Nemec. She, for instance, ordered the police to check Nemec's procedure in decision-making on the transfer to Qatar of the case of Qatari Prince Hamid bin Abdal Sani prosecuted for sex with underage girls in the Czech Republic. Benesova was succeeded by Renata Vesecka who has held the post to date.
(Ceske Noviny)
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