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Independents are allowed to run for lawmaker seats, as per a Tuesday decision of Romania’s Constitutional Court, which admitted an exception to the Law regarding by-elections, raised by Green Party member Remus Cernea.

The Romanian Supreme Court allowed the request for the suspension of the case Loteria I, where businessman George Copos is on trial for tax evasion, and sent the case to the Constitutional Court, as lawyers raised an exception on jurisdiction should the defendant change status.

The Bucharest Court decided Thursday to suspend the trial where media mogul and politician Dan Voiculescu challenged a decision issued by the National College for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS), which said he collaborated with the former Securitate.