Serbian opposition MP Marinika Tepic said on Thursday that none of the judges nominated for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by the Serbian government had been elected.
“All of Serbia’s candidates for election to that prestigious court have been rejected – because none of our judges meets the conditions,” Tepic said in an X post. She added that “Serbia has been shamed before the international human rights court”. “The nominations include Serbian Constitutional Court judges. How is it that they meet the conditions for the country’s highest court,” she wrote.
Srbija obrukana i pred Međunarodnim sudom za ljudska prava!
Odbačeni su svi kandidati Srbije za izbor u ovaj prestižni sud – jer nijedan naš sudija ne ispunjava uslove! A među predloženima su sudije Ustavnog suda Srbije!
Kako li ispunjavaju uslove za najviši sud ove države?! pic.twitter.com/V1hUzRwPsn— Marinika Tepić (@MarinikaTepic) October 5, 2023
Tepic published a picture of a Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) document which said that the Committee on the election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights recommended that PACE reject the list of candidates submitted by the Serbian government “as not all candidates fulfil the requirements of Article 21 of the European Convention on Human Rights for election as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights and to request the Government of Serbia to submit a new list of candidates”.
The Serbian government nominated judges Vladimir Marinkov, Natasa Plavsic and Branko Rakic.
