Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) on Wednesday solved the legal conflict of constitutional nature between the country’s Prime Minister and the President
It is the president's prerogative to sack ministers and appoint the interim substitutes, the Prime Minister nominates. Furthermore, 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.
This is briefly the answer given by Romania's Constitutional Court (CCR) to a notification by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, who called on CCR to settle a legal conflict of Constitutional nature, between the Executive and the country's right-wing president Klaus Iohannis.
According to Dancila, there are 8 difficult ministerial seats as part of a double reshuffle decided by the ruling PSD Party last month after the withdrawal of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, their partner in the ruling coalition. The Prime Minister's reaction after CCR made public its ruling was to blame the president, who, according to her, committed an abuse, violating the Constitution with cynicism and carelessness.
Dancila has also accused the president of having triggered a government crisis. In turn the president has pledged to take action after the CCR's motivation has been published in the Official Gazette. Iohannis has also added that the CCR ruling doesn't change the political situation the government in Bucharest is currently facing.
Klaus Iohannis: "I now see with satisfaction that the CCR has inevitably and rightfully reached the same conclusion I have been mentioning for three weeks now - the Dancila government has lost its legitimacy and must appear before Parliament for a validation vote."
'President Iohannis is electorally motivated to reinterpret in his own manner a mandatory CCR ruling' - Prime Minister Viorica Dancila went on to say adding that she would unflinchingly ask for a confidence vote from Parliament for a new cabinet. The Prime Minister's statement has also been strengthened by the PSD secretary general, Mihai Fifor
Mihai Fifor: "The idea that the Dancila cabinet should avoid Parliament has always been out of the question. Mrs. Prime Minister has also said that and this is exactly what we are going to do. Meanwhile, we are waiting to see the opposition's preparations for the censure motion, with which they have been threatening us for a couple of months now."
The unprecedented strife between the government and the president, also known in Romania as the conflict between the two palaces, as well as the fight between the government and the opposition has intensified since the European Parliament election in May and stand chances to further escalate with the upcoming presidential election in November as both the incumbent president and the Prime Minister are running in the presidential race.
(translated by bill)
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