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The draft law revising Romania’s Constitution stipulates that six of the 19 members of the High Council of Magistrates (CSM) will represent non-government organizations, three of whom would be appointed by the Parliament and three by the head of state.

The prosecutors section of the Romanian High Council of Magistrates voted unanimously Wednesday to keep prosecutor Daniel Morar at the helm of the country’s Anticorruption Department, or DNA.

The Romanian Constitutional Court decided Wednesday, with a majority of votes, that the amendments brought to the law governing the High Council of the Magistrates regarding the appointment of chief prosecutors, are unconstitutional.

Romania’s President Traian Basescu submitted Monday morning to the Parliament’s speakers his proposal to appoint Mihai Razvan Ungureanu as head of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service, or SIE.