Luanda – Angola’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights Marcy Lopes on Thursday highlighted the importance of the amendments on the organization of Courts of Appeal as it will create "a certain justice and equality of remuneration among the magistrates of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP)".
Approved Thursday by the committees of the National Assembly responsible for the matter, the amendments are expected to go to a final overall vote in the next few days.
The Minister added that the amendment to the Organic Law aims to create a principle of equality between the magistrates of the Public Prosecutor's Office who work in the Courts of Appeal and those who work outside these courts.
Marcy Lopes explained that public prosecutors who work in the Courts of Appeal currently have certain remuneration and those who have the same category, however, those working outside the Courts of Appeal have a different remuneration.
"It is for this reason that we have created this principle of equality for all magistrates who are in the same category to receive the same salary, regardless of where they work," said the minister, who considers the initiative to be a fundamental principle of remuneration for public servants.
The minister clarified that the law does not provide for the payment of backdated salaries, since amendments create a principle of equalization from the moment the new law is approved.
According to the minister, the current law creates this differentiation between prosecutors who work in the courts of appeal and those who do not.
The proposal to amend the Organic Law of the Courts of Appeal will standardize the remuneration to be awarded to Public Prosecutors with the functional category of Deputy Attorney General, regardless of their respective areas of assignment.
The aim of the legislative initiative is to bring the criteria for awarding the salary of the Deputy Attorneys General into line with those used to define the remuneration statute for Judicial and Public Prosecution Magistrates.
It also aims to contribute to greater stability and higher levels of motivation and performance within the ranks of public prosecutors, in general, and deputy public prosecutors, in particular. DC/VIC/TED/AMP
