The rector of the National School of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA), Remus Pricopie, has filed a challenge with the Constitutional Court against the non-registration of his candidacy for the presidential election in May.

The CCR will meet on Wednesday to resolve the last complaints regarding the candidacies.

The Central Electoral Bureau rejected, on Monday, Remus Pricopie’s candidacy for the presidential elections, as his file was not accompanied by lists of signatures.

„My candidacy file is not accompanied by lists of signatures because in no other European Union member state are so many signatures requested as in Romania. For example, in Bulgaria an independent candidate can register with only 2,500 signatures. In Austria, 6,000 signatures are needed to be registered in the presidential race. In addition, the entire debate in recent days regarding the potentially onerous ways of collecting 200,000 signatures in support of a candidacy proves that it is not a democratic requirement. We must also not forget that, including in last year’s presidential election, there were several candidates who did not obtain even a tenth of the votes of the number of signatures submitted for registration. Then, what is the point of these signatures, what do they prove? In this context, I believe that the provision in the electoral law to have a list of 200,000 supporters, imposed two decades ago, contradicts the spirit of the Romanian Constitution,” Pricopie said in a post published last Saturday on his Facebook page.

He also believes that the „significant” number of candidacies deepens the political crisis we are in and points out that his own candidacy is „an offer launched to Romanian society.”

AGERPRES