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PACE finally rejects Ukrainian list of candidates for the position of judge of the ECHR – People’s Deputy

“The main reason is the nomination of a deputy from the Servant of the People and a PACE member Alexander Merezhko among the candidates,” Goncharenko wrote. What exactly this candidate did not fit, he did not specify.

The People’s Deputy noted that now the Ukrainian authorities need to hold a competition again to present a new list of candidates.



Ukraine has identified three candidates to the position of judge of the ECHR in May. These are Nikolai Gnatovsky, Alexander Merezhko and Gayane Nurijanyan.

In September, the PACE Committee for the Selection of Judges of the ECHR recommended to the Assembly reject the nominations presented by Ukraine.

Context:

The ECHR has 47 judges – one from each member of the Council of Europe.

How explained on the PACE website, when choosing three candidates, states must ensure fairness and transparency of the procedure. All candidates must have appropriate legal qualifications and experience, and be fluent in English and French. After the assembly receives the list of candidates, the ECHR’s Judicial Election Committee first assesses the fairness and transparency of the national procedure, and then interviews each of the candidates and scrutinizes their CVs. After that, the candidate who will become a judge is elected by the PACE by secret ballot.

Ukraine has been represented by judge Anna Yudkovskaya in the ECHR since 2010. Her term expired in April 2019 but was automatically extended until the next judge was elected. Ukraine was supposed to use a competition to determine three candidates for this post and submit their candidacies for consideration by the PACE.

In 2019, the District Administrative Court stopped the competition for the election of a judge to the ECHR from Ukraine. The court explained that the competition was held with gross violations.

In February 2021, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine restarts competition for the election of a judge ECHR according to the rules in force in European institutions. The documents were accepted until March 30.

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