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| Proposals to Amend the Romanian Constitution |
| (2013-05-27) |
| Last updated: 2013-05-28 15:03 EET |
The Constitutional Forum, the most important public debate institution whose role is to draft laws to amend the Romanian Constitution, has organized over 40 debates in several cities across the country. The debates resulted in a couple of hundred citizen initiatives and a final report. The document highlights the need to revise the fundamental law, as well as the obligation of those involved in the process to build up a long-term Constitutional peace, Prime Minister and Social-Democrat leader Victor Ponta has said.
Prime Minister Ponta says there are good provisions in the Constitution, which have nevertheless been abusively interpreted, and thus need to be strengthened. Victor Ponta also said there were some key points that need to be integrated in the future Constitution, including a clarification of the constitutional relations between the President and the Prime Minister, as well as introducing the term “region”, which is of major consequence for an important project in Romania.
According to the Liberal Party, the co-ruling party in Romania, the main objectives of the revision process is institutional reform, the administrative-territorial restructuring of the country and strengthening the separation of powers. The Liberals want the head of state to no longer be part of any political party at the end of his mandate, nor to be able to run for office or hold any other public functions. The Liberals also want to reduce the president’s term in office to four years and to exclude from Parliament the MPs who withdraw from the party with which they have been elected.
The Conservative Party, also a partner of the ruling Social-Liberal Union, has expressed its support for modernizing the Constitution and wants to clarify important issues related to the fundamental law, such as the remit of the presidency and of the Constitutional Court. The Liberal-Democrats in opposition on the other hand have insisted that the result of the 2009 referendum be observed. In 2009 Romanians voted in favour of a one-chamber Parliament with a maximum of 300 MP seats. The Liberal Democratic Party also wants Parliament to be dissolved if any referendum to suspend the head of state is invalidated.
Moreover the Liberal Democrats want the principle of subsidiarity to be observed in the administrative-territorial restructuring process. The principle needs to be made part of the Constitution in order to define decision-making attributions. Last but not least, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania has advanced a proposal that stipulates, among other things, the elimination, from article 1 of the Constitution, of the definition of Romania as a nation state. In their view, Romania should be a parliamentary republic with a two-chamber Parliament with separate attributions for the Senate and Chamber of Deputies and a president elected by Parliament.
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