In light of the Council of Ministers meeting, which will be held this afternoon, which will discuss the issue of appointing a public prosecutor to the Court of Cassation and the head of the Judicial Inspection Authority, the Supreme Judicial Council issued a statement in which it said: “The state of law and institutions cannot exist unless there is an independent and effective judiciary, and the keenness of the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to fortify and consolidate this independence has been demonstrated since each of them assumed the position of responsibility, whether in the oath letter, in the ministerial statement, or in judicial appointments and formations, this keenness has also been demonstrated.” In approving the new law regulating the judicial judiciary some time ago, even though it was invalidated by a decision issued by the Constitutional Council, it gave the Supreme Judicial Council the right to propose three names to assume ruling membership in the Supreme Judicial Council, including the Public Prosecutor of Cassation and the head of the Judicial Inspection Authority. He added: “Therefore, based on all of the above, and after consulting with the Minister of Justice, who placed the Council within the framework of the Council of Ministers, the Supreme Judicial Council looks forward to the Council of Ministers’ decision regarding judicial appointments achieving the good functioning of the judiciary.”