Lawmakers also argued and swore at each other during a debate on the justice bills on Tuesday. “Aren’t you ashamed, thieves, aren’t you ashamed to come to give moral lessons? Look at you guys, you’re a bunch of thieves,” PSD MP Radu Cristescu shouted from the podium to the USR parliamentarians.

We reproduce the dialogue between a deputy from the NSD and two deputies from the UDR:

Former Minister of JusticeStelian Ion:

• I think a more appropriate name for this would be the “judicial oligarchy law”, because that’s what this law does, it establishes unlimited powers for the presidents of the courts, for the prosecutor’s office, for the general prosecutor, for the members of the Supreme Court, for the head of the Supreme court
• The law is inconsistent with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, with the recommendations of the MCV, with the recommendations of GRECO. Vice versa
• A failed state patronized by President Johannis, who wants certain education laws to be passed by people accused of plagiarism, wants national security laws to be imposed by force, and wants a crooked judge. It does not seem like fair justice, which analyzes tenders dedicated to friends, the prime minister, the same
• How do you ensure this oligarchy of justice? Because of some tools that you put at the disposal of political appointees – the Prosecutor General. This is political control over files

PSD deputy Radu Kristescu:

• I watched for an hour and a half who are the moralists in parliament: an organized crime group called USR, run from the shadows by a criminal named Barna (former president of USR Dan Barna). , no).

• I am also looking at the invalidity minister of justice Stelice, who also has a disability certificate, you do not need to show it, it is obvious.

• Aren’t you ashamed, thieves? Are you not ashamed to come to give moral lessons? Look at you guys, you’re a bunch of thieves.

Deputy USR, Claudiu Năsui:

• This is the true face of PSD. The investigator who licked doorknobs at the Petrov foundry a few years ago (former president Traian Basescu, no), who joined your party and now pretends to be a fighter for justice.
• This is PSD, you see them – they swear, are rude, that’s how they behave. And some time ago he was in another party.

PSD deputy Radu Kristescu:

• Well, you really have no shame, hypocrites, guards, thieves.
• And I forgot to tell you: don’t go into the bathroom two at a time to kiss each other on the lips.

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A debate with shouts and insults took place at the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies regarding the bill on the judiciary, which is part of the package of three laws on justice. All the opposition’s amendments were rejected, as it happened at the special committee, and the deputies must vote on the regulatory act.

In August, Chuke’s government passed three justice laws that were criticized by parts of the system and civil society. New justice laws were drafted by the government to correct the pernicious changes made to the management of the PSD.

Associations of Magistrates spoke of the “compromising of some progress made in the fight against corruption and organized crime”, saying that “the Minister of Justice is deceiving European partners without any restraint in an insidious and endless game”, as many of the harmful changes criticized by international bodies in recent years.

Four problems

Military prosecutor Bohdan Parlog, co-president of the Association “Initiative for Justice”, listed for Hotnews.ro four main problems in the new laws on justice, which, according to him, “reflect the position of the authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI). ) and the interest group, which after the revolution managed the MAI at its discretion.”

The main problem in question is related to the judicial police. More precisely, with the new changes, the norms regarding the secondment of judicial police officers to the prosecutor’s office for investigative work alongside prosecutors disappear:

• “Indirectly, the technical service of the Public Ministry is canceled so that it can no longer intercept, for example.
• Eliminating any mention of the judicial militia from the law on the judicial system deprives the content of the constitutional provision that regulates the activities of the judicial militia under the direction of the prosecutor’s office. This dates back to the period before Romania’s integration into the European Union, when the judicial police was a tool exclusively at the disposal of politicians.
• In this way, an attempt is made to deprive the prosecutor’s office of the necessary means to conduct an effective investigation.
• They want to report everything to the police organization, even for admission to the master’s degree, the method of organization established by the Ministry of Internal Affairs must be taken into account.”

Another problem complained about is that they are trying to turn the Prosecutor General into a “super prosecutor”, because he will be able to refute the decisions of the prosecutors.

Thus, regulations have been introduced that enable the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court of Cassation and justice to challenge all measures and decisions assigned by prosecutors (including DNA and DIICOT prosecutors). “Unless otherwise expressly stated, the prosecutor general can refuse to consider the case by the prosecutor,” says prosecutor Bohdan Pyrlog.

The third criticism is related to the reduction of some powers of the Section for Prosecutors of the High Council of Magistrates and their transfer to the Prosecutor General regarding delegation and secondment.

“We have discussed with the associations of magistrates and our proposal, which was also found in the form of laws sent to the European Commission, was to have a written examination in criminal law and criminal procedural law for access to management positions. Management positions are obtained mainly through the process of memorization. For example, in order to get the position of chief prosecutor, I must study motivational theories from the end of the 19th century to the present,” said the prosecutor.

He also says that under the new provisions, chief prosecutors of the appellate court prosecutor’s offices and presidents of the appellate courts will have discretionary control over promotions, and thus “a clientelistic system and decentralization will be in place.” strenuously”:

• “It goes back from the system to the justice laws.
• “There is no longer a meritocratic exam. The system is now two-stage. Promotion by mail will remain, but the actual promotion will disappear, meaning it will no longer be based on the exam. A commission created de facto by the attorney generals of the prosecutors of the appellate courts and the presidents of the appellate courts will determine based on case evaluation who is promoted , and who doesn’t.”