In a few days, the President of Georgia should nominate a non-judge member of the Council of Justice. Vakhtang Mchedlishvili`s term, who was in the Council of Justice by the Presidential Quota expires in12 days, The names of the candidates are not mentioned at this stage, but the candidates are discussed in the backstages.

Among them is Ana Dolidze, who is currently the parliamentary secretary of the president. As "Kurieri" has been informed, President"s advisor Kakha Kozhoridze and former chairman of "GYLA" Ana Natsvlishvili are also considered for this post.

The President"s administration does not speak about this information at this stage, but say that the candidates" selection contest is over.

NGOs consider that the candidate nominated by the president should be able to resist the enhanced groups in the judiciary system.

"Today there are strong groups in the judiciary that endanger the independence of individual judges and also raise questions in general regarding judicial independence. Therefore, it is important that the candidate who will be named is a very strong and courageous person who understands the challenges that are in the judiciary system, "said the head of the Rule of Law direction of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) Giorgi Beraia.

Executive director of Transparency International - Georgia also speaks about the judges who promote their own interests in the judiciary . Eka Gigauri says that the presidential candidate should be a person who will fight for an independent court.