The Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected the challenge filed by an association requesting the suspension of the documents declassified by the CSAT, submitted by the SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service), SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service), MAI (Ministry of Interior) and STS (Special Telecommunications Service) regarding irregularities in the electoral campaign carried out by Calin Georgescu in the presidential election.

The Association for the Defence of Public Liberties – APALP wanted the „suspension of the execution of an administrative act,” the plaintiffs being the Presidential Administration, the SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service), SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service), MAI (Ministry of Interior) and STS (Special Telecommunications Service).

„The court admits the exception of the lack of passive legal capacity of the defendant Presidential Administration and consequently rejects the formulated and amended request of the plaintiff, as being filed against a person without procedural capacity. Admits the exception of the inadmissibility of the formulated and amended request of the plaintiff and, consequently, rejects the request, as inadmissible. With appeal within 5 days from the ruling regarding the exceptions invoked and resolved,” the court’s decision states.

APALP claimed in a press release that it asked the judges to suspend the notes and information reports of the member institutions of the CSAT (Supreme Council for Country Defence), which participated in the meeting of November 28.

„For the information of the public, we show that these notes and reports drawn up by institutions with responsibilities in the field of national security (SRI, DGPI, STS, SIE) were declassified and would have shown that the outcome of the electoral process would have been affected or influenced. In the subpoena, we showed that the documents for which we requested suspension are administrative acts issued with excess power, the issuing institutions acting with the clear aim of influencing the will of the voters and implicitly the outcome of the elections for the position of president of Romania, not being legally issued acts in the exercise of the defence competence in the field of national security. The request was introduced before the decision and press release of the Constitutional Court of Romania to annul the elections intervened,” claims the Association for the Defence of Public Liberties.

In the opinion of the association, these documents should have been issued and subsequently declassified and presented to the public after the elections and only if they included an objective and impartial analysis of all candidates.

AGERPRES