Romanian Homeowners Press For Promotion Of Law On Nationalized House

The demonstrators submitted to the Presidency a petition signed by conservative Dan Voiculescu and the president of the Homeowners’ Association under the Law 112, Stelian Opris, asking that the law on nationalized houses be promoted as soon as it returns from the Constitutional Court.

 

The Court is to pronounce on the law’s constitutionality, at the request of the Democratic Liberal Party.

 

The National Liberal Party also announced they will challenge the law in court.

 

The challengers argued the parliament’s amendments to the Law on nationalized houses will destroy private property in Romania.

 

The Law on nationalized houses stipulates that houses seized during the communism era based on the provisions of law 112/1995 cannot be returned in kind. 

 

Moreover, the lands corresponding to the houses seized during the communism era based on law 112 cannot be returned in kind either.

 

In August, Romanian President Traian Basescu urged lawmakers to reexamine the law amending the act, saying the law offers no solutions whatsoever, adding it is only a source of illegal gains.

 

Basescu explained at the time that, under Law 112, this type of properties were sold at book value, while the law sent for promulgation stipulates compensations to be paid by the state at the market price.

 

The Chamber of Deputies, however, rejected Basescu’s request and voted to preserve the amendments.