The paper critically analyzes the provisions of the amendments of the Constitution adopted in 2022, regarding the change of the position of the public prosecutor's office. The third initiative for the partial change of the Constitution was fruitful. The provisions which regulate the constitutional position of judiciary and prosecutor's office were changed, with the initial aim to create the independence guarantees of the judiciary, as well as the autonomy of the prosecutor's office. Certain steps that would go in the direction of achieving the given aim, can be recognized in the norms of the amendments. Those amendments have been also confirmed by the Venice Commission, which are considered as the key factor. However, the first impression created by the amendment provisions is that they are the result of a compromise and therefore partly inconsistent, between: the initiator of constitutional amendments (Government), representatives of the court's and the prosecutor's associations, other members of the working group, and, lastly, international community. Within that impression, the new position of the public prosecutor's office primarily indicates that the prosecutor's office rose to the rank which the judicial branch of power enjoys, by copying the provisions of the judiciary, with only a few differences.
Voting right is a subjective public right and belongs to the group of a basic political rights. It could be considered as a legal as well as an ethical category. These two aspects are not completely separable and they are closely connected to a constitutional culture level of a concrete society. Thereof, a high percentage of electoral turnout could not be exclusively a consequence of compulsory voting as well as sanction which follow the violation of this obligation. A lower percentage of electoral turnout could also have a positive impact on dynamic of relationship between citizen - government, if it represents a constructive expression toward a political elite and its crucial decisions.
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