Last week, candidates for the district administrative courts and judges who expressed a desire to be transferred through...

Last week, candidates for the district administrative courts and judges who expressed a desire to be transferred through the competition chose their future courts.

Let's recall the numbers.

The vacant positions in first-instance administrative courts for which the High Council of Justice conducted this competition were 272.

268 people applied to the High Council of Justice to participate in this competition.

263 people passed the admission stage.

242 people chose positions in the courts, 15 of whom are judges.

Also recall that within the selection, candidates took a qualification exam. Key figures of the exam:

- 3428 people submitted documents to the selection with an administrative specialization;

- 3051 person was admitted to testing on the history of Ukrainian statehood;

- 2632 people were admitted to testing of general legal knowledge and knowledge in administrative specialization;

- 604 people were admitted to testing of cognitive abilities;

- 400 people were admitted to the practical task;

- 282 people successfully passed the entire qualification exam.

But only 242 vacancies in the courts have currently been filled by potential judges.

Also recall that interviews on integrity are still ahead. That means not all of these 242 vacancies will actually be obtained by judges. At least 10-15% of candidates will not pass the integrity interviews.

Thus 3428 people submitted documents to participate in the selection, but the existing vacant positions will not be filled.

A logical question arises: WHY?

Why did the state spend two years and millions of money, yet did not fill the vacancies, despite the interest in the competition from 3051 candidate admitted to the first exam?

Let's add more numbers.

At the admission stage to the first exam there were approximately 11 candidates per position.

At the second exam — slightly fewer, 10 candidates per position.

At the third exam — slightly more, 2 candidates per position.

At the practical task — one and a half candidates per position.

After the practical assessment — one candidate per position.

At the admission to the competition itself — less than one candidate per position.

Courts selected 0,85 candidate per position.

So why did this happen?

The answer is obvious:

The High Council of Justice, which at the second exam thoughtlessly threw out candidates by establishing draconian requirements to have 38-39 points in 40 (while the law required only 32), first of all, failed to fill the existing vacancies in the district administrative courts.

Secondly, it left the country without a reserve of candidates for the administrative courts.

Serhii Chumak, commenting on this situation on Facebook, complained that a total of 30 vacancies remained unfilled across five regions.

But one should complain only about oneself.

Who made the decision to throw out after the second exam 1360 candidates who, according to the law, had successfully passed it? The High Council of Justice!

And there were certainly those among them who could have filled these 30 vacancies.

And now what to do? Spend millions of taxpayers' money again on another selection?

I would like to write something else, but from the High Council of Justice's side this is an EPIC FAIL.