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Lustration law “deals with indiscriminate prosecutors”

National Anticorruption Department chief prosecutor, Daniel Morar defended prosecutors, saying that they can’t be accused only for practicing their profession in the communist regime.

Lustration law “deals with indiscriminate prosecutors”
National Anticorruption Department chief prosecutor, Daniel Morar. Photo: Agerpres

Articol de Diana Surdu, 01 Martie 2012, 20:41

The chief prosecutor of National Anticorruption Department (DNA), Daniel Morar , stated for Radio România Actualităţi that the lustration law should also apply to judges, police and security officers.

Invited at Radio România Actualităţi , the chief prosecutor of National Anticorruption Department (DNA), Daniel Morar expressed dissatisfaction that the prosecutors are the only category under the lustration law.

"I find it unusual a whole category to be indiscriminately subjected to lustration. And if so, we notice that prosecutors are the only category included in this law”.

He pointed out that the law ought to have been applied to judges, police and security officers.

"Why are not included the judges who gave political judgments. Why not all police and security officers”, said Daniel Morar.

He defended prosecutors, saying that they can’t be accused only for practicing their profession in the communist regime.

“There are prosecutors in this country who built cases of common law, violence cases. What they had with the communist regime? Order must be followed in any country no matter is communist or free” , stated at Radio România Actualități, Daniel Morar.

Lustration Law, adopted by the Chamber of Deputies


Chamber of Deputies adopted on Tuesday the lustration law, which imposes restrictions on certain rights for a period of five years to people who were part of the power structures and the repressive apparatus of the communist regime.

The draft lustration law was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies assembly with 167 votes ‘in favor’ and four blank votes in the absence of opposition.

Chamber of Deputies was decisional forum on this draft law.

According to Radio România Actualități reporter, Iulia Gherman, the draft law targets those who held high-ranking political offices paid by the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR) between March 6, 1945 and December 22, 1989.

The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania ( UDMR) deputy Mate Andras Levente proposed and the assembly approved that communist prosecutors should be included in the category targeted by the law.

A former communist prosecutor could now access either in Parliament or be appointed Minister or State Secretary, county or local councilor and chair of the County Council? It is unacceptable”, motivated his request Mate Andras Levente.

Daniel Morar is chief prosecutor of National Anticorruption Department(DNA) since August 2005.

He received two terms of three years and now he is in the second delegation to this position.

Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University

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