A Parliament Committee begins debate tomorrow on dismissing the disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva.

The Council of public prosecutors made the recommendation to dismiss Janeva to the Parliament after examining the allegations of abuse of office and corruption raised against her, as she was detained for extorting money from businessmen she was prosecuting. VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Ilija Dimovski, who chairs the Committee discussing the matter, issued a request that the report is declassified, so that the entire public would be informed of the details of the shocking scandal. It’s still unclear whether the Council of public prosecutors will accept the request.  After the Committee concludes its discussion, a plennary session of Parliament will be held.

It’s also unclear what happens to the Special Prosecutor’s Office if Janeva is dismissed. The highly politicized institution is set up hierarchically, with Janeva as a very powerful chief prosecutor, and as the leading parties of the coalition and the opposition can’t reach agreement on a new law for state prosecutors, it’s not clear if it would be able to continue to operate without Janeva. The ruling SDSM party and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who owes his position to Janeva’s partisan investigations of many VMRO-DPMNE officials, want to preserve the office as much as possible, while the opposition wants to see a clean slate in light of the abuse of office.