Romanian Social Democrat Lawmakers Challenged Law On Public Servants’ Statute

Sova said 34 social democrat and liberal senators have taken similar actions and notified the Senate's Secretariat General on the unconstitutionality of the Chamber's amendments to the law on the Statute of Public Servants, which allow a six-month derogation whereby people who don't fill positions of public servants can also be appointed at the helm of the country's decentralized state institutions.

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies adopted Tuesday, with 172 pros, no cons and no abstentions the draft law on the Statute of Public Servants, while the two main opposition parties, the National Liberal Party, and the Social Democratic Party, were absent from the proceedings.

During voting, 172 MPs voted in favor of passing the law, thus Chamber Speaker Roberta Anastase dubbed the document adopted.

Social democrat and liberal MPs did not attend the proceedings, as protest against the fact that this document and its voting was forced on the agenda, and the report of the Administration Committee was also compiled in an "illegitimate" fashion.

Social democrats and liberals said Tuesday they will act together and challenge the law in the Constitutional Court, arguing the law allows political appointments at the helm of the country's decentralized state institutions.

Social democrat lawmaker Mircea Dusa said Tuesday the draft law allows the political clientele to fill management positions within decentralized state institutions and it also stipulates recentralizing public servants' activity.

In turn, democrat liberal group leader Mircea Toader said Tuesday the parliamentary majority backing the country's government run by democrat liberals and the Hungarian minority party has managed to adopt this important law and stressed that liberals and social democrats' plan to challenge the draft law stands no chance whatsoever.

The Chamber of Deputies is the decider on the matter.

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