Romanian government officials will do everything in their power to stop former anti-graft prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi from being appointed as European Union prosecutor, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Monday night after he was officially notified by Brussels that she had been shortlisted for the post.

“I think the members of the selection committee are not aware of the abuses that Laura Codruta Kovesi committed, which affected citizens and the rule of law,” Toader told journalists.

He also said that he will inform all justice ministers in the EU of the reasons why Kovesi was fired in July 2018 from her position as chief prosecutor of the Romanian Anti-Corruption Directorate.

Kovesi was sacked after Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled that the country’s president was obliged to approve the Justice Minister’s request to dismiss her, despite President Klaus Iohannis repeatedly refusing to do so.

Justice Minister Toader had requested Kovesi’s dismissal after a report that accused her of abusing her power and pressuring prosecutors to build cases against high-profile politicians. Kovesi denied the accusations.

At the end of December, Kovesi filed a lawsuit against Romania’s government at the European Court of Human Rights for dismissing her without the opportunity to mount a defence.

Kovesi was shortlisted as one of the top three candidates for the EU prosecutor post by a selection committee, according to a document sent to the European Parliament and disclosed by Romanian MP Iulian Bulai via Facebook.

The procedure requires that the three candidates on the list, Romania’s Kovesi, France’s Jean Francois Bohnert and Germany’s Andres Ritter, are vetted by several European Parliament committees before a vote. The candidates will also be put a vote at the EU Council.

Some Romanian MEPs already vowed their support for Kovesi.

“I will vote for Laura Codruta Kovesi for EU Prosecutor,” MEP Cristian Preda announced on Facebook on Monday night.

“If the [Romanian ruling] Social Democrats and [their junior ally] ALDE oppose this appointment, they only confirm the criminal nature of their regime,” he added.

Kovesi was appointed as head of Romania’s anti-graft agency in 2013. Previously, from 2006-2012, she served as the country’s youngest and only female Attorney General.