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Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Criminal Code Challenges

Romania’s Constitutional Court announced on Tuesday that it postponed for October 24 a ruling on challenges made by President Klaus Iohannis, the Supreme Court and opposition parties against a bill amending the country’s Criminal Code.
Romania’s Constitutional Court Postpones Ruling On Criminal Code Challenges
Ionut Preda
16 oct. 2018, 12:14, English

This is the second delay of the ruling, which was initially scheduled to be announced on September 17.

The bill was challenged by President Klaus Iohannis for erroneous procedure, as the head of the state pointed out that the Senate, as a first chamber, failed to vote on it during the 60-day constitutional term, meaning that the bill should have been automatically passed in its initial form.

The opposition challenge focused on the bill’s stipulations, with initiators stating that more than 30 of its provisions were unconstitutional.

Among them is a controversial stipulation which modifies the definition of abuse of office, restricting the eligibility of the offence to acts committed in self-interest or in the interest of close relatives.

Romania’s Lower Chamber initially passed the bill on July 4. Another bill of the judicial overhaul proposed by the PSD-ALDE ruling coalition, amending the country’s Criminal Procedure Code, saw 64 of its provisions deemed unconstitutional by the court.