President, Ruling Party Disagree on Constitutional Referendum Date

In a press conference on Wednesday, the Romanian head of state said that the referendum could be organized at the same time with the first or second round of this year’s presidential election, on November 10 or 24.

In a response, PSD issued a statement in which it said that the term proposed by the president is too long, and that the referendum to revise the constitution should take place “way earlier” than November’s elections, with a date to be set at the beginning of the next parliamentary session in September.

Romania’s Constitutional Court will discuss on July 18 two projects to amend the country’s Constitution, filed by opposition parties and the ruling PSD-ALDE coalition, respectively.

The Constitutional Court must green-light the two projects before they are brought up for a vote in the Parliament.

Opposition parties PNL and USR filed on July 1 a bill which bans individuals who were convicted with final prison sentences from running in any type of elections, while also banning amnesty and pardoning for all corruption offences and restricting the government from passing emergency decrees in areas related to the judiciary.

Romania’s ruling PSD-ALDE coalition filed with a similar bill with the Lower Chamber on July 2, mainly regarding the subjects of the May 26 judicial referendum.

The revision includes the subjects of the May 26 referendum on judicial matters, at which Romanians voted in favor of restricting the government from passing decrees on criminal offences, sentences and judicial organization, and also of extending the right to challenge government decrees and banning amnesty and pardoning for corruption offences.

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