Law on Euro-elections is constitutional
October 30, 2007
The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the Law on the approval of the Government’s Emergency Ordinance on some measures related to the election of the Romanian members of European Parliament, passed in 2007, is constitutional.
According to a release to Rompres by the Constitutional Court, the memo related to the law failing to meet the constitution was signed by 60 deputies and a senator, all of them members of the opposition Democratic Party (PD).
The PD challenged the Euro-polls law at the Constitutional Court, arguing that it limits the right to be elected as a MEP, that it was not signed by all the relevant ministers and that it does not meet the emergency conditions stipulated for the issue of such acts.
In the memo, the Democrats claim the normative act breaks the provisions of the constitution’s article 38, which says: ‘As Romania joins the European Union, the Romanian citizens have the right to elect and be elected in the European Parliament.’ ROMPRES
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