Profile committees of the Chamber of Deputies approved on Tuesday a bill that prohibits the right to run for public office to persons convicted by courts of crimes against minors. In particular, child rapists, minor traffickers or persons who have committed acts of child pornography will not be able to run for local or parliamentary elections. The draft law stipulates that persons convicted of crimes against children cannot run for office and be elected to public positions.”

In particular, “persons who have been finally convicted of crimes against life, against personal freedom, regarding trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable persons, against sexual freedom and integrity, as well as for cruel treatment of minors, if the victims are minors at the time, cannot be elected” . the act has been committed, but the judicial rehabilitation has not arrived or the rehabilitation period has not passed.”

Currently, a person can be elected as a member of parliament, a county council, a local council or a mayor, even if they have committed serious crimes against children.

“The Administrative Commission of the Chamber of Deputies positively approved the bill to have an additional filter at the level of the Permanent Electoral Body (…) It may be difficult to determine what the priorities of infrastructure investments should be. It may be difficult to debate the merits and demerits of different taxation regimes, we may argue different theories of judicial organization. But regarding sexual predators of minors, everything is clear as day: they should not appear on the ballots, they have no business running the country or communities,” explains the co-initiator of the bill, Rep. Katalin Tenice.

The bill was initiated by the two parliamentarians Katalin Tenice (REPER) and Diana Stoika (USR) and must be discussed in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, which is also the decision-making forum in this case.