It is the president’s prerogative
\nto sack ministers and appoint the interim substitutes, the Prime Minister nominates.
\nFurthermore, the President must issue the decrees, which legalize the move. The President, however, doesn’t have to appoint the ministers, but must explain why he turns down the Prime Minister’s proposals. <\/p>\n
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This is briefly the answer given by
\nRomania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) to a notification by Prime Minister
\nViorica Dancila, who called on CCR to settle a legal conflict of Constitutional
\nnature, between the Executive and the country’s right-wing president Klaus
\nIohannis. <\/p>\n
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According to Dancila, there are 8 difficult
\nministerial seats as part of a double reshuffle decided by the ruling PSD Party
\nlast month after the withdrawal of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats,
\ntheir partner in the ruling coalition. The Prime Minister’s reaction after CCR
\nmade public its ruling was to blame the president, who, according to her, committed
\nan abuse, violating the Constitution with cynicism and carelessness. <\/p>\n
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Dancila has also accused the
\npresident of having triggered a government crisis. In turn the president has pledged
\nto take action after the CCR’s motivation has been published in the Official
\nGazette. Iohannis has also added that the CCR ruling doesn’t change the
\npolitical situation the government in Bucharest is currently facing. <\/p>\n
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Klaus Iohannis: I now see
\nwith satisfaction that the CCR has inevitably and rightfully reached the same
\nconclusion I have been mentioning for three weeks now – the Dancila government
\nhas lost its legitimacy and must appear before Parliament for a validation
\nvote. <\/p>\n
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‘President Iohannis is electorally
\nmotivated to reinterpret in his own manner a mandatory CCR ruling’ – Prime
\nMinister Viorica Dancila went on to say adding that she would unflinchingly ask
\nfor a confidence vote from Parliament for a new cabinet. The Prime Minister’s statement
\nhas also been strengthened by the PSD secretary general, Mihai Fifor<\/p>\n
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Mihai Fifor: The idea that
\nthe Dancila cabinet should avoid Parliament has always been out of the
\nquestion. Mrs. Prime Minister has also said that and this is exactly what we are
\ngoing to do. Meanwhile, we are waiting to see the opposition’s preparations for
\nthe censure motion, with which they have been threatening us for a couple of
\nmonths now.<\/p>\n
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The unprecedented strife between
\nthe government and the president, also known in Romania as the conflict between
\nthe two palaces, as well as the fight between the government and the opposition
\nhas intensified since the European Parliament election in May and stand chances
\nto further escalate with the upcoming presidential election in November as both
\nthe incumbent president and the Prime Minister are running in the presidential
\nrace. <\/p>\n
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