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The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) is in an "unprecedented situation" where it has to explain why it applied the law "in both its letter and spirit," top court President Cristina Tarcea said during debates this Wednesday at the Constitutional Court regarding Prime Minister Viorica Dancila's notification of a constitutional legal conflict between Parliament and the ICCJ over the five-judge panel.
The head of the supreme court said that although she did not make any reference to the capacity to pursue proceedings of the initiator of the challenge, "it seems a bit odd that, when a gridlock between two authorities is invoked, it's another authority that files this challenge."
The Constitutional Court of Romania discusses on Wednesday, in public session, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila's challenge regarding a constitutional legal conflict between Parliament and the High Court of Cassation and Justice in relation to the five-judge panel.
The government is represented by head of the Government's Secretariat General and former constitutional judge Toni Grebla, ICCJ - by the court's President Cristina Tarcea, and the Senate by Cristian Ionescu. The representative of the Chamber of Deputies is absent from debates.
