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In addition, the party led by Dan Barna learned from Traian Băsescu how a popular issue can be used to raise electoral capital and mobilize its electorate at the polls.
Thus, the USR proposed the organization of the “No Sanctions” referendum simultaneously with the parliamentary elections to be held on December 6, according to a party press release.
The document shows that Sunday marks two years since the “No sanctions” initiative reached Parliament, but that during all this time it was blocked by the PSD.
“The PSD that resigns from Dragnea and no longer supports criminal candidates is making fun of a million people who signed for ‘No Sanctions’. The USR proposed to vote on the initiative this year and hold a referendum with the local elections on September 27 as a signal to change the political class before the December national elections.
But the PSD objected. Next Sunday we could have gone to the polls to vote for new local elected officials, but also to amend the Constitution so that criminals no longer hold public office, so that there is no other Liviu Dragnea in Romania’s history, but PSD opposed “., accuses USR.
The representatives of this party announce that they will return with a new proposal and that they will support the vote on the initiative on November 6 in the Senate, as well as the organization of the referendum together with the elections on December 6.
“The old parties must put aside the electoral calculations and show that they want to reform after 30 years in which they rotated in power and did nothing for the people. “Without Sanctions” must come to the letter of the Constitution!
The party founded by Nicușor Dan gathered, through the initiative “There are no criminals in public office”, more than a million signatures. The initiative proposes that the following paragraph be added to article 37 of the Constitution: „Citizens definitively sentenced to custodial sentences for crimes committed intentionally, until the intervention of a situation that eliminates the consequences of the sentence, cannot be elected in the organs of the local public administration, in the Chamber of Deputies and in office President of Romania.
RSU’s strategy recalls the year 2009, when the then president, Traian Băsescu, called a referendum to go to the unicameral parliament and reduce the number of parliamentarians to no more than 300. Both the opposition parties and several NGOs criticized the referendum simultaneously with the presidential election.
President Klaus Iohannis also called a referendum on various issues related to justice at the same time as the May 2019 European elections.
