Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcy Lopes, stated this Thursday, in Luanda, that the Proposed Law that changes the Organization of the Courts of Appeal will create “a certain justice and equal remuneration among the magistrates of the Ministry Public (MP)”.
The Executive’s legislative initiative, approved this Thursday in detail by the committees of the National Assembly (AN), responsible for the matter, will go to the final global vote in the coming days.
The Minister of Justice and Human Rights pointed out that the amendment to the Organic Law aims to create a principle of equality between Public Prosecutor’s Office magistrates who work in the Courts of Appeal and those outside these courts.
He explained that MP magistrates who work at the Courts of Appeal currently have a certain remuneration and those who have the same category, but work outside the Courts of Appeal, have another remuneration.
“It is for this reason that we created this principle of equality for all MP magistrates who are in the same category to receive the same salary, regardless of where they work”, said the minister, who considers the initiative as a fundamental principle of remuneration for public servants.
He clarified that the Law does not provide for the payment of retroactive salaries because what this change does is create a principle of equality from the moment the new Law is approved.
He noted that the current law creates this distinction between MP magistrates who work alongside the Courts of Appeal and magistrates who do not work alongside them.
According to Minister Marcy Lopes, the change to the Organic Law was limited only to this element of salary equality between MP magistrates.
The proposal that amends the Organic Law of the Courts of Appeal will standardize the remuneration to be attributed to Magistrates of the Public Ministry with the functional category of Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, regardless of their respective areas of placement.
The objective of the Legislative initiative is to adapt the criterion for attributing the salary of deputy attorneys general of the Republic to that used in defining the remuneration status of Magistrates of the Judicial Ministry and the Public Ministry.
It also aims to contribute to greater stability and increased motivational and performance levels within the class of Public Prosecutors, in general, and the Deputy Attorneys General of the Republic, in particular.
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