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UPDATE 13.38 Dan Barna: I call on all parties to vote for the “No criminals in public office” initiative
USR PLUS Alliance Co-Chair Dan Barna on Wednesday called on all parties to vote in the Senate plenary session on the “No Sanctions” initiative, saying it is a unique opportunity to hold a referendum on December 6.
“Today is a historic day for Romania. After two years of effort, after a million citizens asked for it, the citizens’ initiative ‘There are no criminals in public office’ is today on the Senate’s agenda. I appeal to the Presidents to the parties, I appeal to Mr. Orban, Mr. Ciolacu, Mr. Kelemen Hunor, Mr. Tomac: send your senators to vote today ”, transmitted Barna, in the Palace of Parliament.
According to him, through a vote in favor of this initiative, the current Parliament, “which in many moments in the last four years has almost driven Romania out of Europe, could wash its cheek a bit.”
Today it would be possible that, in three or four hours, like Romania, the Romanian Parliament gives a message that it ends with sanctions in public office. It is a message that more than a million citizens who have signed this initiative expect from the Romanian Parliament (…) I ask all parties to attend this historic vote, this vote is, beyond parliamentary chitibuses, it is a vote by which Romanian parliamentarians can demonstrate that they assume that the convicted have nothing to look for In the positions of mayor, councilor, parliamentarian, it is an important bet, (…) because in the constitutional calendar it is very clearly established that they must there should be an interval of 30 days – this is the period in which the adoption by the Senate “The referendum could have been held on December 6, together with the parliamentary elections. We are talking about one more ballot,” explained the leader of the USR.
Dan Barna stressed that it is very important that all parliamentary parties confirm their support in the Chamber of Deputies, where this initiative was voted on by all groups.
“There is no particular agreement with any party or another in the current Parliament. (…) This issue – ‘There are no criminals in public office’ – is more important than any other issue in the parliamentary struggle at the moment. It is a opportunity “The real thing is to have the referendum of ‘No Sanctions’ with the parliamentary elections, it is the logical option, the moral option and the normal option,” added the leader of USR PLUS.
13.30 Cazanciuc: PSD will vote in the Senate on the “No Penalties” initiative
The senators of the PSD will vote, on Wednesday, in plenary session, the citizen initiative to revise the Constitution “There are no criminals in public office”, as the party deputies did, announced the interim president of the Senate, Robert Cazanciuc.
“There are no people sent to court on the PSD lists for parliamentarians. We are not talking about convicted people, as established by the initiative” There are no criminals in public office “, we do not have people sent to court on the lists. Spirit of the referendum not to have criminals in public office The PSD also voted in the Chamber of Deputies for this initiative. We proposed to organize the referendum on August 23, but the right-wing forces opposed it at that time due to the pandemic and the other political parties that follow the example of the PSD and that people on parliamentary lists are not sent to court ”, declared Cazanciuc.
He mentioned that, by the will of the plenary, which will be with physical presence on Wednesday, the initiative may be voted on without a report from the committees, with the leaders of the parliamentary groups deciding unanimously in this regard.
Cazanciuc mentioned that he heard the leader of the USR, Dan Barna, say that he hopes to be called to DNA, “wanting to be a criminal.”
“We hope that USR will make a decision in accordance with the initiative” There are no criminals in public office “if Mr. Barna will be a criminal, as he stated the other day,” Cazanciuc added.
Asked what are the possibilities of a referendum to reform the Constitution on December 6, Cazanciuc said: “If this initiative meets the required number of votes today, it will go to the Constitutional Court to examine compliance with the text of the Basic Law.” “The court has 5 days to examine it. The referendum can be held on the last Sunday of the 30 days provided by the Referendum Law.”
The president of the Senate mentioned that 90 votes are needed to approve the Senate initiative, as it is a constitutional law, and the PSD has 59 senators.
12.10 Fenechiu affirmed that the PNL will vote for the initiative “There are no criminals in public office.”
Daniel Fenechiu declared, in RFI, that the PNL will vote for the initiative “There are no criminals in public office.”
“Certainly, for NLP, it has always supported ‘No criminals'”. President Klaus Iohannis has started a complementary referendum, so to speak, a different referendum, which was voted by more than seven million Romanians. We have made some amendments to the Chamber of Deputies, which have been rejected. Today we will see what the parliamentary majority decides, since we do not have a majority there. The “No Sanctions” initiative does not have a report with the Committee on Legal Affairs and, according to However, we support that it be debated in plenary, we will jump to the commission and including discussions, amendments and all technical discussions in plenary, if this it is possible, obviously we will support the amendments agreed with the RSU. “In the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, yes, we will support the” No sanctions “initiative, because Romania needs a clean political life,” he said.
When asked what are the chances that the “No Sanctions” initiative will be put to a referendum with the parliamentary elections on December 6, Fenechiu replied: “It is difficult for me to give you a success rate. It is quite late, from this point on Our USR PLUS colleagues are very anxious for it to be adopted before the elections, I don’t know how much they want it to be submissive, but I think they want it to be at least the issue of the electoral campaign. “
Dan Barna said that Wednesday was the moment of truth when the citizens’ initiative “There are no criminals in public office” was placed on the agenda of the full Senate.
“We are one step away from the initiative signed by 1 million Romanians to reach the Constitution by referendum on December 6,” added the leader of the USR.
“Wednesday is the day of truth: final vote on> in Parliament. The initiative No sanctions in public office was put on the agenda of the full Senate. We are one step away from the initiative signed by 1 million Romanians to reach to the Constitution by referendum on December 6. But now everything depends on PSD and PNL, it is possible that tomorrow they will try procedural tricks not to vote, it would be a clear sign that they still want sanctions. Such a trick would be to invoke the lack of report. the two commissions, that is, the Legal Commission led by Serban Nicolae, which has been putting the initiative in the drawer for months. The regulatory deadline for preparing the initiative report has expired: July 29. complies “The Senate Rules have an express provision in Article 89 paragraph (4): the Committee of Leaders of Parliamentary Groups may include in the plenary agenda an initiative with a report term desac updated, “Dan Barna wrote Tuesday. and Facebook.
USR Senator Radu Mihail said that the citizens’ initiative “No criminal in public office” received a report from the Constitutional Commission, but “became a prisoner” from people like Serban Nicolae or Carmen Dan in the Legal Commission. He added that at Tuesday’s meeting of the Leaders’ Committee he insisted that the bill be voted on in the full Senate on Wednesday, although he has no report from the Legal Commission.
“The answer was that there is a custom that does not allow such a thing,” added the USR senator, who specified that the same will be requested by the party in Wednesday’s session of the legislative forum.
The Senate Constitutional Commission on Tuesday adopted a report in favor of the legislative proposal on the citizens’ initiative to revise the Constitution known as “There are no criminals in public office.” However, the report was delivered without being common to those of the Legal Commission.
On July 14, the Chamber of Deputies adopted, as the first notified body, the citizens’ initiative “No criminals in public office.” There were 295 votes “in favor” and one abstention.
The “No criminal in public office” initiative provides for the introduction of a paragraph in the Constitution to Article 37 that establishes that: “Citizens definitively sentenced to punishment cannot be elected in the local public administration bodies, in the Chamber of Deputies , in the Senate and as President of Romania, deprivation of liberty for crimes committed intentionally, until the intervention of a situation that removes the consequences of the sentence ”.
After the debates in the assembled committees, the initiative will be put to the vote of the Plenary of the Senate. If it receives the favorable vote of two thirds of the number of senators, the Government would organize the referendum to reform the Constitution in 30 days.
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