The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) has filed four constitutionality challenges with the Constitutional Court against the packages of laws the Bolojan Government pledged responsibility for.

AUR highlighted that the projects were adopted „without parliamentary debate, without consulting the Romanians and without a democratic vote”.

„Through this maneuver, the Executive has usurped the role of Parliament and trampled on the fundamental principles of the rule of law. The analysis of the projects adopted through this abusive procedure shows an alarming picture: constitutional violations of exceptional gravity, a systematic attack on the separation of powers in the state and a deliberate attempt to concentrate legislative power in the hands of the Government. Invoking „emergency” to justify the exceptional procedure represents an institutional lie. Problems such as the excessive budget deficit or the health crisis did not appear overnight. They date back years, during which successive governments refused to act democratically. The artificial creation of the emergency and its use as a pretext to bypass Parliament represents constitutional fraud and a defiance of the principle of good faith,” reads a press release of AUR sent to AGERPRES.

AUR hopes that the Constitutional Court judges „will reject these projects in their entirety and send a firm signal that Romanian democracy cannot be abolished through legislative artifice.”

AGERPRES