Our View: Legal battle needed to define auditor-general’s authority limits

It seems only a matter of time before the Attorney-General George Savvides will submit the request to the supreme court to have Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides removed from his post for inappropriate behaviour. Although the Audit Office spokesman has criticised the delay in the submission of the case, implying that its announcement last Sunday by the deputy attorney-general, was an intimidation tactic, there can be no turning back for the state’s Legal Service.

There has been speculation...