Ruling Party: Foreigners Have A Bad Impression About Romania Due To President’s Critics

“We must not be surprised that foreigners have a bad impression about Romania, when the most important man in the state himself is criticizing his country before the international press,” the party said on its official Facebook account.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis stated on Tuesday that Justice Minister Tudorel Toader should give up issuing an announced emergency decree which would re-open high profile criminal cases judged by the Supreme Court since 2013, deeming the issue “grossly unconstitutional”.

Speaking in Germany, where he attended the signing of a new French-German treaty, the president said that the approach “was not possible”, as a law could not have retroactive effects.

“We do not know exactly what the justice minister imagines to write in that decree. But, in my opinion, if he would publish what he said it would be proven as grossly unconstitutional. There are a number of principles everyone respects, and we have them anchored in the Constitution. One of these principles is the basis for the entire state building and rule of law: that a bill can only effect the future, so it cannot act retroactively. You can imagine that if a law could apply for the past, any Government could come and change the state’s past, and any trace of stability and predictability would disappear,” said the Romanian president.