The Bolojan government, at the CCR's hand. “There are enough who, after a possible negative decision, will ask for his resignation”

The second package of fiscal-budgetary measures reaches the table of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR). The constitutional judges are pronounced, on Wednesday, on the new notifications, among which eight deposited by the opposition. Here is the project for the special pensions of the magistrates.

The prime minister understood that he will resign in the case of a negative photo decision Inquam/Octav Ganea

The decision of the RCC regarding the fiscal-budgetary measures, including the reform of the special pensions of the magistrates, can lead to the resignation of the Bolojan government. The prime minister understood that he will not continue in office, if the special pensions reform is blocked at the CCR: “If you just sit on a position and the things you know should be done to go through these difficult periods you cannot do, it is not justified to stay on this post, but this is not a problem of threat or ultimate term, it is simply a finding of common sense.”. He explained that he did not use resignation as a form of pressure, but “It is a proof of responsibility to insist on doing things properly.”

With the prime minister's resignation on the table

“I believe that the CCR judges arrived there in a nomination process, including recently, where, in an open vote-it is not a secret-PSD has nominated a candidate, UDMR nominated a candidate and we have even voted these candidates. which this government makes decisions”, Says USR president Dominic Fritz.

In the context of carrying out the prime minister's resignation, coming from him, PSD leaders build the scenario of a departure of Prime Minister Bolojan, showing that a new prime minister can be installed in just three days. “The government can be done immediately. The government remains the same, only the prime minister does not change”explains the mayor of Craiova, Olguţa Vasilescu. “The coalition can continue and if Mr. Bolojan decides not to continue as prime minister”, Explains, in turn, the leader of the PSD senators, Daniel Zamfir.

The special pensions reform of the magistrates reaches the CCR table at the notification of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (JCCJ). The project is the only one who escaped the opposition attack on the censorship motions, on this topic there is a broad political consensus. All the other four initiatives in the package II that the Government has assumed in Parliament, however, were attacked at the Golden RCC, can also SOS Romania.

Package II, at CCR

“If the law and the constitution and practice of the courts are respected, this project cannot pass”, The former president of CCR Augustin Zegrean is of the opinion. The former constitutional judge explains, for “Adevărul”, that regardless of the decision of the RCC, the Government, in the same formula, can come with a new reform project, “But it must be made with head, scientific and good faith ”. “It has nothing to do with the prime minister's resignation ”, points to Zegrean.

According to the arguments from the peak of the Executive, the legitimacy of the government is closely linked to the success of the initiatives in the package of fiscal measures. Experts explain that, apart from the initiative that changes the age and retirement revenues of the magistrates, the other laws do not risk being declared unconstitutional.

All other initiatives may contain punctual errors that can be modified in the Parliament, explains the political scientist Cristian Pârvulescu: “I do not think that the other laws can be declared unconstitutional, not even partially. The great issues are at the one with justice. They are not. Have no problems with unconstitutionality. Here are the issues related to the rule of law. (…) There are decisions of the European Court. It is a whole procedure related to the rule of law ”.

“From a political point of view, of course some questions are born to need an immediate answer. Bolojan anticipated this matter” – George Jiglău

“From a formal point of view there is no obligation for a government if this package drops to CCR to leave the government home or leave the prime minister. From a political point of view, of course some questions are born to need an immediate answer. Bolojan anticipated this issue when he said that if the package completely or especially this case with the pensions of the magistrates, then he has no legitimacy to continue and was one of those moments when he invoked the resignation. (…) Now comes from another entity, a hindrance, a brake to say, which cannot be negotiated, which cannot be fought in any way, and from here the difficulties that the prime minister are born if this package falls ”explains the politicalologist George Jiglău for “Adevărul”.

The request for resignation could occur as a result of RCC decisions. “Certainly there are enough that in the second second, after a possible negative decision from the RCC, will ask for his resignation, but one is the public speech or the way he formulates those who are waiting to escape the Bolojan points and another is to happen in reality. Now, the extremely loaded agenda, there are all the issues, We arouse controversy and dissatisfaction and if every one of them resign and legitimacy is raised and I know what, we don't get anywhere”Explains the political scientist George Jiglău.

“As we have seen, the other parties in the coalition are willing to change the prime minister, if necessary”-Cristian Pârvulescu, political scientist

However, the package of measures that the Bolojan government has assumed its responsibility in the Parliament also attracts other issues.

“It's a problem, but a problem of principle. Namely, the fact that such a large number of legislative changes are used. Already the Constitutional Court, in 2010, has attracted the attention of the Government since then, the Boc government, that this is an extraordinary procedure that must be very well justified. So the fact that it is jumping over the Parliament, given that in Romania it is a semi-parliamentary, semi-presidential regime, in which parliamentarism is very strong, it is an important democratic risk.

And I expect those at the Constitutional Court to draw attention to these things. They did it then, I don't see why they wouldn't do it now. But, in principle, it all depends on the support of the government and the support of the other parties in the coalition. Or, as we have seen, the other parties in the coalition are willing to change the prime minister, if necessary ”explains the political scientist Cristian Pârvulescu.