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New Members in Romania’s Constitutional Court

The 3 new members are Daniel Morar, the former head of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, Mona Pivniceru, a former justice minister and Valer Dorneanu.

New Members in Romania’s Constitutional Court
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Articol de Radio România Internaţional, 11 Iunie 2013, 10:31

From an institution that in theory should have been present in the media only in exceptional cases, the Constitutional Court has turned into a main and sometimes uneasy player on the Romanian political scene.

Over the past years the Constitutional Court’s frequent interventions, following equally frequent appeals to its rulings, have been interpreted by politicians according to their interests.

The idea that even the Constitutional Court of Romania is subject to political interference, like any other Romanian public institution, is no surprise.

The 9 judges of the Constitutional Court are appointed on purely political criteria, something that has become a Romanian trademark.

The Presidency, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have the right to appoint 3 representatives each.

The suspicion that the 3 new members of the Court have also been appointed by political criteria seems to be confirmed.

The 3 new members are Daniel Morar, the former head of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate and allegedly a close associate of the Romanian President, Mona Pivniceru, a former justice minister who has the support of the Liberals in the ruling coalition, and Valer Dorneanu, backed by the Social Democratic Party, also in the governing coalition.

The latter were nominated and validated by the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

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