Parliament to vote for judicial candidates

10:12, 12.12.2019

Parliament will vote for judicial candidates to be appointed at Supreme Court of Georgia.

A sitting of Parliamentary Committee on Legal Issues is scheduled for 09:30, at the session MPs will vote for judicial candidates.

Later, voting is scheduled at plenary, which will start at 12:00.

To be approved for the position, the candidate needs the support of 76 MPs.

20 candidates for posts in the Supreme Court have been presented to the Georgian parliament for approval. The candidates received the highest scores from the majority of the High Council of Justice members. The list of candidates includes the current judges, the incumbent secretary of the High Council of Justice, former members of the Council, the chairman of the Constitutional Court, the prosecutor general and his deputy.

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