President Iohannis discontent with the civil servants’ statute, sends it back in Parliament

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President Klaus Iohannis is sending the law on the public servants’ statute back in Parliament for re-examination, the Presidential Administration informed on Monday.

More precisely, the head of state is discontent with the fact that the Parliament has deleted from the law the paragraph stipulating that the white collars charged and investigated for corruption should be suspended from office.

The total exclusion of the public servants (including of the high-ranking servants) from being suspended from office in case they were indicted (particularly if they committed crimes related to their position) is generating multiple negative effects. On one hand, the law creates a unique situation overall within the regulations on exerting the public office. On the other hand, we consider by cutting this type of protection of the public office, the public authority itself is getting more vulnerable, while the norm seems to aim at protecting the public servant who has been indicted rather than at protecting the public office overall,” says the President’s argument.

The head of state also invokes a Constitutional Court’s ruling, which says that it’s normal that a public servant investigated for corruption to be suspended from office until the court’s solution, for the institution must be protected.

The law has been initiated by more PSD and UDMR senators, who argued that they want to remove discrimination between the contractual staff and the public servants. They voted that the suspension from office should be optional, if the institution wants it.

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