President Klaus Iohannis criticized on Thursday the procedure for amending the laws of justice, about which he said that are being "cut."
"With almost negative results, the minister of justice has managed to prove that one may be even more transparent, more unclear and more uncertain than until now. Never before did we have such a procedure damaged by the legislative, a package of laws assumed by the minister, opinions asked, all negative, the minister goes to Parliament although he does not have the right to legislative initiative, the Coalition MPs take these draft laws and present them as if they had created them at home and now we have a parliamentary initiative. That is how laws are made. (...) If we look at their content, certainly some provisions (...) are good, opportune and necessary. I am thinking here of fine tuning with CCR decisions, complying with European directives, and so on, but from correcting legislation, which would have been a good thing in essence, until cutting it, what is happening now, it is a long way that we should not follow," Iohannis said at the Cotroceni Palace.
He added that there is a need for an in-depth discussion of the threshold for abuse of office.
"I hear all sorts of theories in the public space and I am afraid of cuts also here of the legislation in force." I am thinking of that much discussed threshold. I do not think there must be a specific threshold to define the abuse of office. A public servant or an MP may abuse the office also against public interests and that is difficult to quantify. There is a need for an in-depth discussion and in good faith. But this good faith is hard to find in all the debate in Parliament," the head of state said.
According to Iohannis, the Judicial Inspection must remain with the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM).
"I believe the Judicial Inspection - it is not the president's job to legislate, but I can express my opinion and please take the opinion of Klaus Iohannis - must remain with the CSM for an extremely simple and clear constitutional reason, as in the Constitution it is written clearly: CSM - the guarantor of the independence of Justice, from which we conclude that the Inspection must be there as well. The arguments in the public space lately that people would not reach an agreement there, at the Inspection, as some have the opinion and others have another - these are details that can be remedied very easily, but the principle is one that is defended in the Constitution, well-established and very simple. The CSM is the Justice, not Parliament. Parliament legislates, creates legislation the judiciary applies it and these cannot and should not be mixed," the head of state said.
He concluded that his objective is to preserve the independence of Justice and efficiency in this system.
"I hope that the parliamentary debates will lead to draft laws that do good to justice and not harm," Iohannis mentioned.
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