The SCM notified the Judicial Inspection in the case of the judge of the Ploieşti Court of Appeal, after the decision on Thursday, to verify if he committed a disciplinary offense
The Section for Judges of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) decided to notify the Judicial Inspection to carry out checks regarding a possible disciplinary deviation from the judge of the Ploiesti Court of Appeal, which decided on Thursday to annul and suspend the decision of the Constitutional Court (CCR) to annul the presidential elections.
“In relation to the public interest manifested in relation to the solution pronounced by the Ploiești Court of Appeal during today, April 24, 2025, the CSM judges section decided to notify the Judicial Inspection in order to carry out verification regarding a possible disciplinary deviation by the judge,”
The Council specifies that “the disposed measure takes into account the fact that in about 30 other identical causes solved by the courts of appeal in the country the pronounced solutions were to reject the action, the judicial practice being unitary in this regard”, according to the statement.
Judge Alexandru Vasile from the Ploieşti Court of Appeal decided, earlier on Thursday, to annul and suspend the decision of the Constitutional Court (CCR) to annul the last year's presidential elections, a decision taken in December 2024.
Who is Alexandru Vasile, the judge of the Ploiești Court of Appeal who suspended the RCC decision
The decision can be challenged in five days after the court's portal, and the appeal will be tried by the High Court of Justice and Cassation (ICCJ), which, on January 17, definitively rejected Călin Georgescu aimed at resuming the presidential elections.
The RCC decision was challenged at the Ploiești Court of Appeal by a natural person, Gheorghiță Popescu, according to the data on the portal. The court's decision in Ploiești was taken ten days before the first round of the presidential elections.
On December 6, the Constitutional Court annulled the results of the first tour of the presidential elections, won by Călin Georgescu, based on documents desecretized by CSAT, received from SRI, SIE, MAI and STS. The SRI reports talk about an operation prepared in advance, in favor of Călin Georgescu and which has “the operation of a state actor”.
Already, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the Ploiești Court of Appeal has appealed against the decision given by the Ploiești Court of Appeal-the administrative and fiscal litigation section in the file number 301/42/2025, in other words in the case in which Judge Alexandru Vasile decided to suspend the CCR decision, the Public Public Page announced on Thursday.
The prosecutor's office appealed to the judge's decision at the Ploiești Court of Appeal, by which the RCC decision to annul the presidential elections of 2024 was abolished.
Who is the judge of the Ploiești Court of Appeal who pronounced the decision
Alexandru Vasile is a judge at the administrative and fiscal litigation section within the Ploiești Court of Appeal. The section is led by Judge Maria Stoicescu.
Vasile was a judge at the Prahova Court, before reaching the Court of Appeal, and between 2013 and 2017 he was seconded to the Ministry of Justice.
Who is Alexandru Vasile, the judge of the Ploiești Court of Appeal who suspended the RCC decision
The judge has an apartment in Ploiești and runs a Skoda Octavia from 2007. He has a salary of 205,000 lei per year and has financial assets worth 200,000 lei, according to the latest declaration of wealth. He is unmarried.
What do expert experts say
Augustin Zegrean, former judge and president of the Constitutional Court, explained, contacted by Hotnews.ro, the decision of the Ploiești Court of Appeal on the annulment of last year's presidential elections, which he calls “aberrant”. He says, however, that if the court decision in Ploiești remains final, the elections of more than 10 days will be canceled.
“Everything is aberrant here. All these ends of minutes are aberrant because the CCR decision is not an administrative act. It is the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania, which is something else. Then, in the minute it says” it is suspended until the trial of the case “and at the same time” the cause is judged and it cancels it “. CCR.
Zegrean said that there is the possibility that the elections for the President of Romania this year will be canceled, if none of the parties of the trial, that is, the CCR and the applicant Gheorghiță Popescu, will not appeal.
A former CCR president explains the cancellation of the election by the Ploiești Court of Appeal: “All these minutes are aberrant”
“Because, if the decision of the Court is null, and the Government's decision by which other elections are null. That an act is born null acts. And then we will take it over with the elections, but it remains unresolved because the CCR decision has annulled the tour. Constitutional Court.
For his part, the professor and expert in constitutional law Bogdan Dima explained, for the public hotnews.ro, that the decision of the Ploiești Court of Appeal does not produce legal effects.
“The basic idea is that it is a profound error of judgment and interpretation that the judge does and does not produce legal effects. Things will take place as it is carried out at this time, and there will be an appeal and further we will see what is happening,” explained the teacher.
An expert in constitutional law explains why the decision of the Ploiești Court of Appeal that decided to suspend and annul the CCR decision is “a profound error and interpretation”
Asked if there is a chance that the annulment of the Court of Appeal will lead to the return to the second round of the December elections, Bogdan Dima says that the decision has no legal relevance. “From a political point of view, of course he has a relevance, because everyone will play in the useful key to each political group.”
“There are other possible ways. It is not possible to enter with the feet over a competence that is exclusive of the Constitutional Court. So, here we are dealing with a zealous judge who has found to make a rather political than legal gift,” said the teacher.
