The Government continues with its legislative agenda in matters of Justice. And it does so with the reform of the nineteenth-century Criminal Procedure Law (Lecrim) which, as the main novelty, includes the creation of the figure of the investigative prosecutor. The Council of Ministers will definitively approve next Tuesday the bill that establishes that the direction of the investigation of criminal cases will pass from the judges to the prosecutors, who will decide the steps to take to clarify who has committed a crime, Government sources inform elDiario.es.
The text, which will be sent to the Cortes for processing, includes a reform of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. This reform establishes that the mandate of the State Attorney General will be five years and will no longer coincide with that of the Government. It also attributes exclusively to the highest representative of the Public Ministry the power to appoint, promote or sanction prosecutors. And it limits the popular accusation by vetoing political parties, restricting it to certain crimes—corruption is included—and requiring a “legitimate link” with the cause in question to be able to exercise it.
Source: www.eldiario.es
