The Chamber of Deputies adopted late on Monday the draft law on the Criminal Procedure Code, whereby prosecutors will be prohibited from giving information during criminal prosecution, on the same day the committee on the laws of justice gave a favourable opinion to this initiative.
The draft law amending and supplementing Law no.135 / 2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by 175 votes in favour, 78 votes against and one abstention.
USR Chairman, Dan Barna, said on Monday that USR will challenge the bill to the Constitutional Court (CCR), arguing that Romania is as of today, officially, a state of offenders, ziare.com informs.
“We discussed with the colleagues from PNL, USR will challenge this law. (…) As of today, Romania is officially a state of offenders, a state where theft and tax evasion are encouraged. Also, offenders, rapists, criminals, thieves, even if they are filmed by citizens on phones, can be relaxed if there is no other evidence. (…) In today’s Romania, we have offenders in public offices and they create a Criminal Procedure Code for themselves. Liviu Dragnea has just got the premises to cancel his first sentence, Tariceanu has just obtained his premises to escape any stress on the false testimony that is obvious to everyone. The offenders make their own laws. As of today, prosecutors will have difficult times to be able to bring the offenders to justice,” USR leader Dan Barna said at the end of the plenary sitting of the Chamber of Deputies.
PNL will also refer to the Constitutional Court the draft amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, Liberal Deputies’ leader Raluca Turcan said on Monday before the final vote on the initiative.
“PNL will challenge this draft bill to the CCR,” Raluca Turcan said.
Now the law will be sent for promulgation to President Klaus Iohannis, who can only return it once to Parliament for review and may refer it to the Constitutional Court.