Right Force Party MPs will request on Monday that the Standing Bureaus of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate initiate the procedures for the appointment of a new Ombudsman, party leader Ludovic Orban said on Thursday.
He mentioned that the mandate of the current Ombudsman, Renate Weber, expired on June 26.
„Renate Weber is being maintained in the Ombudsman office by the PSD-PNL parliamentary majority, even though her five-year mandate expired on June 26, 2024. (…) The Right Force Party MPs will ask the Standing Bureaus on Monday to start the procedures for appointing a new Ombudsman in order to put an end, as soon as possible, to this dark period in which this institution has turned into a servant of the ruling power,” Orban wrote on Facebook.
He maintained that the current Ombudsman „has surpassed in subservience and political partisanship” even her predecessor, Victor Ciorbea.
„Weber was the guardian angel of the specials, attacking at the CCR [Constitutional Court of Romania] the laws adopted by Parliament during my government to abolish or overtax special pensions. For 3 years she did not bother with anything the Ciuca and Ciolacu governments. The last gift offered to PSD and PNL by Weber was the refusal to trigger the constitutionality review of the merger ordinance, despite the fact that we had notified the unconstitutionality of several articles, similar to articles in other ordinances, which were previously declared unconstitutional. For more than 5 years Renate Weber was not the Ombudsman, but the PSD and PNL advocate, the protector of governmental abuses against citizens’ rights and freedoms. We could have been able to stop this state of affairs sooner and bring back this fundamental institution of democracy at the citizen’s disposal,” said the leader of Forţa Dreptei.
Orban mentioned that in 2021, he managed to assemble a parliamentary majority that took the decision to remove Renate Weber from office, but unfortunately, the Constitutional Court, „dominated by PSD politicians”, reinstated her.
AGERPRES
