The Constitutional Court of Romania over time has been notified 35 times to acknowledge legal conflicts among the powers of the state, and several times the conflicts were indeed a reality, as one power had crossed into another one's area of competence, Justice Minister Tudorel Toader said on Friday at the University of Craiova (southwest of Bucharest).
"The CCR has often found legal conflicts of constitutional nature, has stated the causes of this kind of conflict and the measures that were to be taken so as such conflicts be not repeated in the future, and the authorities, the powers never enter in conflict with each other again. Moreover, it is interesting that out of the 35 instances, the majority are positive conflicts, i.e. a power has stepped into another power's area of competence," Tudorel Toader said, upon delivering a speech on "The balance of powers in the rule of law's architecture" on the occasion of being bestowed the Doctor Honoris Causa title by the University of Craiova.
"Should we draw any conclusion as regards these conflicts, we'll find that in its 25 years of existence during which the Constitutional Court was notified with such conflicts, each power has been in conflict with another power or with the other two powers. I mean, there was no power in Romania not to enter, at some point and for one reason or another, into conflict with the other powers, via authorities. Each time, such a conflict notified to the CCR has marked such an imbalance among powers, and the CCR's decision has reestablished the respective balance," Tudorel Toader, who has also served as CCR justice, stressed.
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