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| POLITICS AND JUSTICE(21.11.2007) |
| (2007-11-22) |
| Last updated: 2007-11-22 16:09 EET |
Romania’s President Traian Basescu has decided not to promulgate the recently passed law meant to complete and amend the Criminal Procedure Code issued by the Government by emergency ordinance. Instead, the President has sent it back to Parliament for reexamination. Here’s how the President explains his decision:
“The amendments made to the Criminal Procedure Code aim to subordinate public interest in finding the truth in all criminal cases to the personal interests of those investigated or charged with different crimes. It would have been very important for the law to entail precise instructions on how a certain community is protected if its mayor is found out to be stealing. On the contrary, the Criminal Procedure Code tells us how the mayor is protected if found out to be stealing from the community. It would have been equally interesting if the Criminal Procedure Code told us how the Romanian nation is protected if a minister is found out to be stealing. Instead, this Code tells us how the minister is protected. Besides, the law imposes all kinds of restrictions on how to conduct a criminal investigation.”
The first to react to the President’s move were the media and civil society. Even the Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu, recently described by the President as a Mafioso, said Parliament didn’t handle the law in question very well. The opposition, at war with the President just like the Liberal government, is now on the same side. Asked if the President’s decision to send the law back to Parliament is justified, the Social Democrat Victor Ponta, a member of the Legal Committee of the Chamber of Deputies told an interview to our radio station:
“Without any doubt, three or four of the amendments to the law made by one of my colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies out of ignorance, in my opinion, and not ill faith, not only favour criminals, but are simply preposterous, especially for a judge or a prosecutor, or someone who works in the legal area. However, I find it very unfair to blame the whole Parliament because of one parliamentarian who initiates a bad amendment. I don’t think Romania would be a better country if it didn’t have a Parliament, but that it would be a better country if it had better and more responsible parliamentarians. The solution is not to have a war between the President and the Parliament, but to initiate a deep-going reform of the justice system, with no political interference.”
What Mr Ponta and other parliamentarians have failed to explain, however, is how the law they now denounce came to be voted for in the first place, by all deputies, including the Democratic MPs who are always accused of acting only at the instructions of their former leader, President Traian Basescu.
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