Judge Lia Savonea Elected Chairman Of Romania’s Top Judicial Watchdog CSM

Savonea was appointed after being validated for the office by the CSM plenary, which also appointed Nicolae Solomon as deputy chairman of the body for next year.

The two will replace current chairman Simona Marcu and deputy Codrut Olaru, who held their respective offices for 2018.

Lia Savonea was appointed Bucharest Appeal Court chairman in 2010, after she had been appointed deputy the previous year. She requested in November a procedure which could have led to the dismissal of Supreme Court Chairman Cistian Tarcea.

In her candidacy project, Savonea noted that judicial independence should not serve as a “façade” behind which justice itself is violated and that the principle was somtime compromised by the way past CSM plenaries treated it.

Nicolae Solomon also ran for the office of deputy chairman last year, losing the contest to Codrut Olaru. The Bucharest prosecutor has ten years of experience and also activated within the country’s General Prosecutor’s Office.