Romanian Parliament Amends Rules To Allow Prosecution Of Ex Ministers With Simple Majority

Cionca added the amendment to the Chamber’s regulation, allowing indictment with the vote of a simple majority, was submitted to the Chamber’s standing office and will be put on the plenary session’s agenda.

 

The current rules require a two third majority to approve criminal proceedings against former government members, a provision that democrat liberals challenged at the Constitutional Court. The Court ruled the provision was unconstitutional and the Chamber was supposed to amend the rule within 45 days, a deadline that expired in December last year.

 

Chamber of Deputies speaker Roberta Anastase said Monday the Chamber standing office will postpone a decision on the approval of criminal proceedings against former social democrat prime minster Adrian Nastase, to give the Chamber time to amend regulations.

 

Early February, lawmakers rejected the start of criminal proceedings in a corruption case against Nastase.