Judge CCR Iuliana Scântei explains the cancellation of the elections: “I'm sorry that the CCR did not find the opportunity to apologize”
Laura-Iuliana Scântei, a judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania, explained on Tuesday, August 19, in Râșnov, in a debate, how to cancel the elections.
Judge CCR Iuliana Spătete Photo: Mediafax
During the discussion, a member of the public asked the judge Laura-Iuliana Scântei about the reasons that were the basis of the CCR decision on the annulment of the elections.
“The CCR has no competences to analyze the way in which other state authorities carry out their legal attributions, nor the competence to verify on how CSAT has reached a certain finding:” they affected the presidential electoral process “, Said spark about the role of CCR in canceling the elections, according to HotNews.
If the CCR had not decided to cancel the elections based on the desecretized documents, then they would have validated “something that was not according to the law ”.
According to the law, the elections are defined by three mandatory criteria: free, periodic and correct. They were free, because people were able to vote for the desired, but also periodic candidate, because they took place on the set date.
“The” correct “character that concerned the legal character remained in the analysis. What mattered was that the exercise of the law should be in accordance with the law, because this gives the correct character. (…) We did not sanction, and I am sorry that the CCR did not find the opportunity to explain to the people and may apologize, no voter for how he voted, but for the fact that a competitor did not respect some obligatory normative acts ”, the judge said.
Regarding the methods used today in election campaigns, including those on the Internet, the judge also said “The world moved faster than the national legislation and the duties of the authorities in the field moved ”.
The judge also explained that, after the outbreak of the Ukraine war, the Law for national security was amended. Has been completed with two categories of national risks: hybrid war and state and non-state actions of propaganda and misinformation,
“We concluded that the electoral process had to be stopped, because it was vitiated in the forms in which other authorities showed. Maybe other authorities should have intervened and detail back. We said how the constitutional order was affected, but some more complete answers had to come.”the CCR judge also transmitted.
