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It highlights that our country has a long bicameral democratic tradition that seeks to hinder the legislative process, provide greater representation to the various interest groups in society, and provide control and review mechanisms before its enactment.
“The idea of a ‘unicameral parliament with 300 parliamentarians’ is a means to an end, not an end in itself. So far I have not heard / read a persuasive and polite argument about the ultimate goal of abolishing a chamber and reducing the number of parliamentarians.
Constitutional reforms are not achieved just because we do not like the faces of parliamentarians, but because the institutional architecture does not reach the desideratum of the State and society. And I think it is already more than obvious that the argument of “the people voted in the referendum” is more than stupid. The referendum was consultative and the rule of law / modern democracy / existed precisely to avoid the rule of the mafia that can be easily manipulated by hypocritical populists like Basescu.
Romania has a bicameral democratic tradition that aims to complicate the legislative process, offer greater representation to the various interest groups in society, and ensure control and review mechanisms before enactment. The problem with Romanian parliamentary architecture is not that we have bicameralism, but that we have, in fact, a “tricameral unicameralism”, as Simina Tanasescu put it in a famous article. If parliamentary architecture deserves a review, it would be towards a resymmetry of bicameralism, ”he wrote on his Facebook page.
The idea of updating the 2009 referendum was also briefly criticized by Septimius Parvu, an EFOR expert.
“I admit that I do not understand the urgency of putting a unicameral Parliament on the agenda. In fact, I do not understand why we need a unicameral. Let’s think about how much mess has been blocked with two chambers. And last but not least, not all the referendums. I’m fine, “he wrote on Facebook on Friday, December 25.
The PNL deputy, Daniel Gheorghe, also criticized the announcement made this Thursday by the president of the Senate. “Considering that Mrs. Dragu woke up in her first parliamentary term directly president of the Senate, making the second man in the state after the president, I can consider these intentions as natural consequences of her euphoria, but I can also blame them for the lack of political experience and We, Romania, have had a bicameral Parliament since 1864 when Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza founded the Senate under the name of “weighting body” and the only time in history we had a unicameral legislature was during sad memory of the communist dictatorship that imposed the so-called “Great National Assembly,” he wrote on Facebook.
Senate President Anca Dragu announced on Thursday the establishment of a joint parliamentary commission for the implementation of the 2009 referendum, when Romanians voted for a unicameral parliament, with a maximum of 300 MPs.
“We will create a mixed parliamentary commission at the House and Senate level, which aims at the entire electoral process, but also at the application of this measure,” Anca Dragu told Digi24 on Thursday, December 24.
The commission will be established early next year, if it fails in the last week of this year.
“Probably at the beginning of January. We continue trying, next week, to the extent that we will have all the approvals,” Anca Dragu also specified.
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