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The Parliament has got on holiday but the commission for the investigation of the elections of 2009 continues to work
The Romanian parliament has got starting with Friday on summer holiday until the end of the month of August. But the parliamentary commission for the investigation of the presidential elections of 2009 will work during the whole summer, the decision being taken by senators and deputies in the last working week.
The joined plenary of the Deputies’ chamber and the senate voted in the last week before holidays the request of the special commission for the investigation of the senate and the deputies’ chamber for the elections of 2009 which mentions that the meetings of the commission be summoned during the parliamentary holiday between 1 July and 1 September.
Thus, during the summer, the MPs of the commission will invite people for hearings. Among those there might be the head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi or the former deputy of the the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) Florian Coldea, as the Constitutional Court of Romania rejected the motion made by 82 deputies from the National Liberal Party (PNL) and Save Romania Union (USR) regarding the alteration of the Regulation of the Deputies’ Chamber and decided that the heads of public institutions such as the chairman of High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ), of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) or the general prosecutor must be presented at the commission.
The file regarding the presidential elections of 2009 was closed by the prosecutors of the General Prosecutors’ Office when they decided that ‘ there is no element that could lead to the supposition that any actions might have been undertaken’ meaning criminal actions, announced the institution.
One of the priorities which the parliament takes at the beginning of the parliamentary session in autumn is the law package in justice. The minister of justice Tudorel Toader announced that the package is finalised to be presented to the government. After the approval, the draft will be sent to the parliament.
During the summer, the government will be allowed to pass laws after the last week of the parliamentary session the MPs voted a draft law through which the government is enabled to issue, during the parliamentary hoiiday ordnances in domains which are not the object of organic laws, a series of amendments being adopted as well.
The draft includes the government being enabled to issue ordnances for domains of public finances and economy, regional development, public administration and European funds, health, research, domestic affairs, tourism, transports, agriculture and rural development, heritage administration as well as the prorogation or alteration of some terms included in normative acts with the power of law.
The deputies established by adopting an amendment that the government can issue ordnances in domains related to the ministry of defence.