The Senate’s legal committee had passed on Tuesday an amendment stipulating that sentences in prison up to three years including are fully pardoned. The Government had proposed a term of five years.
The amendment tabled by the Association of Magistrates in Romania (AMR), Prosecutor’s Office and PSD senator Serban Nicolae was passed by 7 votes and two abstentions.
Former president Traian Basescu had proposed a longer time, ten years, but he assumed the Bars’ amendment of six years. However the amendment hasn’t got the needed votes.
Moreover, the Senate’s legal committee has passed one more amendment stipulating that sentences to prison longer than three years but which don’t exceed ten years are partially pardoned, meaning they are shortened by three years.
The committee also passed an amendment entailing that sentences to prison that are under surveillance or which has been suspended cannot be pardoned.