Romanian President Traian Basescu signed a degree on Monday naming Laura Corduta Kovesi as the new prosecutor-genweral of the High Court of Justice, a presidency press release says.

The move comes after the main body of Romanian magistrates, the Supreme Council of Magistrates-CSM, voted unanimously in favour Justice minister Monica Macovei’s nomination of Kovesi for the job as Romania’s prosecutor general.

Laura Codruta Kovesi, 33, has been heading a local branch of the anti-terrorism, anti-organized crime body DIICOT since January 2006.