The Association for the Defense of Public Liberties (APALP) is the one that sued, on December 6, the intelligence services, the Special Telecommunications Service, the Presidential Administration and the Ministry of Interior, two days after Klaus Iohannis declassified the documents that targeted the independent candidate in the presidential elections that were canceled in the meantime.
Several websites wrote that the plaintiff in the trial is also Călin Georgescu, because this information also appeared on the court portal.
Initially, the information was that it was Călin Georgescu who sued the Presidential Administration, SRI, SIE, the Ministry of Internal Affairs – DGPI and STS and that he challenged the secret services’ documents regarding his electoral campaign for the first round of the presidential elections, which were declassified by the CSAT on December 4. The judges are expected to make a decision on Wednesday, in a hearing.
According to the courts portal, the administrative and fiscal litigation action has as its object “suspension of the execution of an administrative act” and was filed as plaintiffs by Călin Georgescu and the Association for the Defense of Public Liberties APALP.
Thus, according to the cited source, the “defendants” are the Presidential Administration, the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE), the General Directorate for Internal Protection (DGPI) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Special Telecommunications Service (STS).
The panel of six judges of the Bucharest Court of Appeal decided on Tuesday to postpone the case until Wednesday, December 11, the information on the courts portal also shows. On December 6, the Constitutional Court decided, unanimously, to cancel the first round of the presidential elections. The CCR ruling came two days after Iohannis declassified information from the secret services that documented and transmitted to the CSAT data about the interference of a “state actor” in the campaign of independent candidate Călin Georgescu.
Subsequently, the Prosecutor General’s Office opened two in rem criminal cases in the case of the first round of the presidential elections, after the files were declassified showing that thousands of accounts were created on the Internet to influence voters’ choices. Prosecutors have requested additional information from the intelligence services and will also request information from the National Office for the Prevention and Combating of Money Laundering.
Oh! another “material error.”