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CCR’s decision by which the ordinance increasing fines during the state of emergency is a message to most Romanians, who respected the restrictions, that they should have been “smart,” says journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu. He says that Renate Weber, the Ombudsman, who notified the CCR, and Valer Dorneanu, the current head of the Court, are the “heroes” of Sputnik, Russia’s propaganda tool in Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
Cristian Tudor Popescu: At first I thought it was about the amount of these fines, which are considered too high, the amount is from 2,000 to 20,000 lei. Then I understood that it was about erasing all the fines, it doesn’t matter. In the opinion of the Constitutional Court, my argument was as follows at the beginning, believing that it was the size of the fines and that people could not pay because the average salary is too low compared to the fines.
And here I had the following argument, which is still valid: in the United States, the judiciary issues sentences of 150 years in prison, 170, 200 and some years in prison. They have a slightly fun component, which human being can execute such punishments? And yet they are pronounced very seriously. The meaning is to emphasize the seriousness of the event, that is, those 200 years or so.
The fines of this level, very high, have the same meaning. What they say: It is not a joke, it is not about not paying the trip by public transport and paying a fine, it is about life and death matters. That was the meaning, not looting people, taking money out of the state budget, where to fill the holes. Absurd.
We now see that the Constitutional Court’s objection is linked to a 1999 law, an emergency ordinance that became law by a vote of Parliament in 2004. The state of emergency law is said to not clearly indicate the criteria for giving the Fine and unclear and left to the discretion of the police officer.
None of the fines granted now, not as Prime Minister Orban said the fines are still lower. No, there are none left. No one pays anything anymore. 1999. 21 years have passed since then. In these 21 years, the Constitutional Court has never relied on that law. Let’s say it has not bowed since 2004, when it became law. Did you verify its constitutionality? That if they did, they would probably say what I’m saying now. No. He passed a law without the court saying anything.
If things were so obvious that all of these fines and gross violation of citizens’ rights now had to be lifted, why hasn’t this correction been made in 20 years? In addition, the current president of the Constitutional Court, Valer Dorneanu, was in 1999 the president of the Legislative Council, therefore, he gave his consent in relation to that ordinance, because his agreement had to appear.
He gave it, had no objections, then slept in peace. Now he says that he has not slept since the state of emergency began and that these laws have been approved, because he is concerned that citizens are not oppressed, that their fundamental rights are not violated, that a dictatorship is established. Then he did not have pressure on the same text of the law that he now accuses. In 2004, when the ordinance became law, this gentleman was the president of the Chamber of Deputies, where the same text of the ordinance was voted to become law. Again, he had no objection. And now he woke up.
Shouldn’t the Constitutional Court, being a state of emergency, also enter a state of emergency? When Ordinance 34 was issued, based on the 2004 law, why didn’t the Constitutional Court intervene immediately? Not let it flow, make an extraordinary meeting? He didn’t say a word.
CCR is coming now, when in a week we will enter a state. I can’t even say alert, because the ombudsman also complained about this state of alert, which the government now wants to establish. I don’t know what we are going to get into, maybe we are not going to get into anything. Under these conditions, CCR gives this decree, this ucaz (decree – n.red.), Because here it is about truly dictatorial decisions, nobody can contradict them, there is no appeal.
Ms. Renate Weber (see a screenshot of a Sputnik article illustrated with a photo by Renate Weber, n.r.) – Sputnik is Putin’s Russia’s main propaganda drum for Romanian-Moldovan space in Eastern Europe.
The lady is a true heroine of this magazine, along with Mr. Dorneanu. These are facts, you haven’t heard me with conspiracy theories.
The lady in question, the one who filed the complaint with the CCR, on the basis of which the court directed by Mr Dorneanu annulled the fines for a fire, this lady is the one who declares the following, as a member of the European Parliament sent From Romania to Brussels: Another story, I know you are our strategic partner, but I don’t understand what that means, unknowingly giving money to the US arms industry? I honestly don’t think we need that. I understand that you are protecting us from the Russians, but it seems to me that this is happening because we woke up the Russians with the installation of the shield. By the way, is this shield defensive, though? This lady, as a Romanian MEP, speaks these phrases.
Romania is in NATO, it is a strategic partner of the United States and the distinguished one reproduces the Soviet propaganda to the letter in this expression. In addition, she was a worthy attacker, or, if you like, a worthy defender of the torture applied to the justice of the PSD in the country. In Brussels, the lady jealously defended them with steel swords. The same Mrs. Weber who is the star of Sputnik. These are all facts, they don’t make interpretations,
And Mr. Dorneanu, declared by the same publication “2019 personality in Romania”, is the one who, in 2018, went to an alleged legal forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, although he received a notification from the Ministry of the Minister of Foreign Affairs He warned that it is not in the interest of the state’s foreign policy to attend this meeting, because it was one of the operations for which Russia wanted to break the image of sanctions imposed by the EU.
This gentleman, a unique case in the history of Romanian diplomacy, although he received this notification from the MFA, went to Saint Petersburg, he probably had a lot of important work there. It is a fact
I’m not talking about the support this gentleman has shown against all the savage attacks on the PSD justice system in recent years.
These are the people who have now decided that these fines should be abolished.
What is the message of such a decision? Those who followed the rules, and who are 18.7 million, those who were fined are 300,000, those who challenged in court are 100,000. The rest had no problem, they were not fined, they obeyed the laws, just as they were. Now they tell us it was not clear. What was not clear?
It was very clear and very clear what not to do or what you have the right to do. You did not fall into any of those categories, you were amendable. Many did not even have the statement, they were fined for not writing it. They did not want to.
A journalistic topic: let’s see how many fines of 20,000 lei were granted, of 15,000, of 10,000 – per person who spoke – of 2,000 and how many warnings.
Messrs. Tariceanu and Ponta want even more. When you happily think of CCR and Mrs. Weber, they want all fines cleared, rightly so, without going to court. There are some excepted categories.
Why is this being done? To tell those who followed these rules: they are many, but they are stupid, they had to be smart.
I obeyed, I stayed in the house, my brain jumped following the rules, and those who violated them are just like me. Those who mocked the authorities, those who walked the fish as a pet. This is the message that the Court sends, in view of the days that await us after May 15.
