The final opinion of the Venice Commission will be published this
Saturday, but Top Channel has secured one of the pages of the answer
that the Venice Commission will give to the Constitution.
Top Channel has obtained this document with all five requests of the Constitutional Court for Venice.
The opposition and judges have raised questions that the Vetting Law goes against the European Convention of Human Rights, as regards the private life and families of judges and prosecutors.
The document obtained by Top Channel has an answer in favor of the Vetting Law.
The Venice Commission doesn’t see as concerning the fact that judges and prosecutors need to declare about their past and if they have contacted with members of the organized crime.
“Annex 3 of the Vetting Law requires the person to declare if they have had contacts with people involved in the organized crime, and they should list these contacts. Even a single contact needs to be declared. It would not be very difficult to fill this application, only if he is a judge or prosecutor whose contacts with organized crime are to an extended point”, the document says.
It is unclear if Venice agrees with other measures challenged by the opposition at the Constitutional Court, which are related to the private life of relatives of judges and prosecutors.
Although the core of the question raised by the opposition extends farther than this, the direct language used on these pages leaves no room for other interpretation, as regards the validity of these applications. There are voices that politicians from left and right parties will be in favor of this law.
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