Raluca Turcan wants to amend the CCR law and proposes sanctions for the boycott / “It cannot be a negotiation arena like the market
Raluca Turcan at the press conference on the occasion of the European Heritage Summit, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, September 18, 2024. Inquam Photos / George Călin
“The way in which 4 CCR judges defy an entire country leads me to initiate a broad amendment of the law on the operation of the CCR”, PNL deputy Raluca Turcan said on Facebook on Monday.
The PNL deputy indicated the main directions in which the law must be amended: “sanctions for the unjustified boycott of the adoption of some decisions”. Turcan stated that “CCR cannot be a negotiation arena like in the market”, “and law and principles must prevail!”.
Among the changes announced by Turcan are: legal recusal, when a judge is in a conflict of interest with a pending case, and the possibility of Parliament recalling judges who flagrantly violate the Constitution.
Raluca Turcan also conveyed that he will soon launch the project with these and other changes in public debate.
Turcan's reaction comes after the Constitutional Court could not take a decision on the reform of magistrates' pensions even on Monday, after four of the constitutional judges, all appointed at the PSD proposal, boycotted the meeting.
Accused of intentionally blocking the adoption of a law that should have entered into force on January 1, the four constitutional judges published a joint press release in which they said that their absence “did not mean a blockage of the Court's activity, but a decision related to compliance with the rules of operation and the legal framework that governs the activity” of the CCR.
