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The procedure of the government's assuming responsibility for the budget laws did not generate a legal conflict, argued the Justice Ministry's Secretary of State Olivia Diana Morar on Wednesday, as she presented before the Constitutional Court the government's stance on the challenges moved by the heads of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
In her opinion, the wording of the challenge referred to the Constitutional Court betrays the intention of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies presidents "to politically speculate any attempt by the government to carry out the governing program", by raising obstacles in its way.
The government's representative also said that the MPs had the possibility to submit amendments to the bills and even initiate a censure motion, and added that by assuming responsibility the government has respected the role of Parliament as the sole legislative authority.
Upon leaving the Constitutional Court headquarters, Morar said that the main reason why the government chose to assume responsibility was that it didn't want Romania to end up again like in 2019, when the state budget was adopted towards the end of the first quarter, thus triggering "extraordinary bottlenecks" in the administrative operation.
AGERPRES
