Laura Codruta Kovesi, congratulated at the time of audiences in the European Parliament, obtains 12 votes at the Committee on Budgetary Control

The deputies Eva Joly, Roberta Metsola, Ingeborg Grassle and Barbara Spinelli expressed their solidarity with Laura Codruta Kovesi during hearings in the European Parliament vis–a–vis recent the attacks in the country.

Thank you “to be come here despite everything the obstacles which you underwent, your courage inspired by many people on all the continent. You were the image of the fight anti–corruption”, Roberta Metsola said.

“I am proud to be here in spite of the terrible campaign which its government launched against it. I make a point of telling him that we do not believe what it is that I know what occurs when you send people in prison,” keep in mind the rumour “, Eva Joly declared.

“I am completely interdependent for you vis–a–vis the attacks which you take. I am moved that you evoked Giovani Falcone, with whom I worked”, Barbara Spinelli declared.

“You trusted to us Romania and with the Rumanian system, and this confidence dissociates you. All the candidates were qualified, but you were attacked and let us regret we it because we need you”, also Ingeborg Grassle declared.

The Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament (CONT) voted Tuesday evening for the candidate preferred at the post of public prosecutor of the European Parquet floor.

Laura Codruta Kovesi (Romania) occupies the first place with 12 votes, Jean–François Bohnert (France) is second with 11 votes and Andres Ritter (Germany) obtained a voice.

It is the second victory of Romania, after that of the Committee, composed of 12 experts in justice. This technical committee designated the three finalists in the order of the scores: 1. Kovesi; 2. Bohnert; 3. Ritter.

Thereafter, the Council of EU Coreper College (compound of the ambassadors of the member countries of the EU) and favour of the Bohnert French with 50 points, followed by Kovesi and Ritter with 29 points each one.

The vote within commission CONT is advisory. Tomorrow morning, there will be a vote in committee LIBE, a broader commission of 60 members. This vote will count enormously for the nomination of the European Prosecutor.

The vote in committee LIBE will be secret, as in commission CONT.

Thereafter, commission LIBE of the European Parliament will negotiate with the Council of the EU of COREPER until they agree on the winner.

If Commission LIBE chooses French Bohnert, who is also option COREPER, the choice will be a formality.

The candidate declared victorious of these negotiations LIBE – COREPER will be submitted to the vote in plenary session of the European Parliament.

The Public prosecutor of the European Union will be named at the conclusion of the final negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.

It is a question of appointing the first prosecutor of the parquet floor or          opéen charged, starting from the end of 2020, with fighting against “the transborder serious crime attacking the budget of the EU”, according to the official definition. The gendarme of the corruption of Europe.

“France has much work slides about it to push the profile of Bonhert near the other chancelleries, but the match is not finished. And the Rumanian candidate presents a more interesting political profile. Laura Codruta Kovesi, 45 years, is indeed the cheffe of the parquet floor which has a long time work to cleanse the Rumanian political community, corroded by corruption. Since 2013, it started continuations against several thousands of elected officials, so that it seemed the woman to cut down. The socialist power, which currently chairs the European Union, finally obtained its dismissal last July. It is become again simple “procureure” within the Public Ministry. Investigations for “abuse of power”, “corruption” and “perjury” were open against it to Bucharest… The Rumanian minister for Justice moreover addressed to his 27 counterparts a missive aiming at disparaging the candidature of his compatriot.”

The procedure of selection will continue in the European Parliament, where each of the three candidates will be auditioned. Being given the tension between Mrs. Kovesi and the Rumanian government, the Euro–MP can be tried to politicize this nomination and to give him a support in order to send a strong signal to Bucharest… One should not either neglect the chances of the German candidate in the European Parliament, an institution largely under the influence of Berlin. At the end, the chief of the European parquet floor will have to be the object of a validation by mutual agreement, in March, by the European Council and the European Parliament.

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