Liviu Dragnea contests in court new PSD leadership
Liviu Dragnea presented in court an intervention for the cancellation of Viorica Dancila's Mihai Fifor's election in positions of president and general secretary of the Social Democratic Party ( ruling party) at PSD Congress.
The former PSD leader sent to Bucharest Court a request in the case in which PSD asked the court to register the new party leadership in the Political Party Register.
Bucharest Court analyzes the PSD request to include the new party leadership in the Political Party Register, elected on June 29, after Dragnea's imprisonment.
The party statute was also amended at the Congress. PSD asked the court to amend the statute, but Bucharest Court has not made any decision.
Dragnea asks the rejection of the party's request to include the result of Dancila's election as party president in the Register "because of illegality and non-statehood of choice and because her election was made by delegates to PSD Congress of June 29, based on the statute amendments voted at that Congress but not registered with the Bucharest Court ”.
Liviu Dragnea also asks that the request to reect the result of Mihai Fifor's election as PSD general secretary in the Political Party Register.
Liviu Dragnea is incarcerated at Rahova Penitentiary since May 27, when he was sentenced to three years and a half of jail time in the trial on fictitious hiring at Teleorman Child Protection. The former PSD leader has another sentence for two years with suspension received in April 2016 in the Referendum file. There is also a penal complaint against Dragnea in Tel Drum case.