ProRomania's Ponta: This destruction of Justice, to cost all who want to keep living in Romania

Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta, leader of Pro Romania, considers that "a destruction" of justice is currently taking place and it would take several years to fix it, and the "chaos" is produced by criminals and people who do not have thorough legal studies. 

"This destruction of Justice carried out in 2018 will greatly cost us, those who wish to keep on living in Romania (and not in Brazil or Costa Rica). We will need several years to repair what we have ruined now!" Victor Ponta wrote on Facebook. 

He specified that he is a graduate of the Bucharest Faculty of Law, was a magistrate, lawyer and deputy, member in the Judiciary Committee, but he does not understand "a thing" from the way the laws are being made and applied in 2018 in Romania. 

"Justice is a part of the public mechanisms without which no society can ever function. There are justice systems more or less efficient, more or less democratic, more or less independent or not. But such chaos like the one produced in 2018 in Romania is without precedent," the former Prime Minister said. 

In order to support this statement, Ponta explained that the Government amended through emergency ordinances the Justice laws, "made in Parliament for one year," that the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and the judges of the Supreme Court "are wrongly applying a law ever since 2014 (although in the CCR, from the 9 current members, only one was a judge) or that the Justice minister and the Prosecutor General "smear each other on television, on Facebook and directly in CSM [the Superior Council of Magistrates, ed.n.]." 

Furthermore, Victor Ponta made reference to the fact that both the European Commission and the Venice Committee have transmitted to the Bucharest authorities that they are wrong regarding the Justice laws, "and, still, the "Iordache" Committee shows contempt and says that they know best." 

Ponta said that the "chaos is premeditated and directed by criminals that want to comfortably get away with the stolen money," but also by people without thorough legal studies. 

He pointed out that he is not interested in the legal fate of Liviu Dragnea (Social Democratic Party leader, ed.n.), but considers that millions of Romanians that are involved in at least one lawsuit must have faith in Justice. 

"I am not interested in Dragnea's legal fate - he has already proved it, much like Pablo Escobar, that he is far too powerful for our Justice. In the end, Escobar did not end his career on the Court's steps either. But I am thinking that millions of Romanians are involved in at least one lawsuit and they hope to see justice being done - and they need to have faith in Justice!" Ponta said.