PSD’s CExn Chairman Dragnea: I, personaly, am not interested in ordinance on amnesty

Social Democratic party (PSD) leader Liviu Dragnea Friday evening stated that he, on his part, is not interested in an ordinance on amnesty.

"We talked about amnesty and pardon [in PSD's National Executive Committee, CExN, ed.n.] as I have heard all kinds of versions from direct, indirect sources, open sources, coming from one side of my colleagues. I told them I, personally, am not interested in the amnesty ordinance any longer. If the Government wants to issue it, they should do it. "When they intend to issue it - it's their problem. Some of the colleagues who were criticising me have further put pressure for months so that this ordinance be issued. Prime Minister Viorica Danci held on," Dragnea said at the end of PSD's CExN, according to Agerpres.

At the same time, the PSD leader added, a series of questions should be answered and, if the answer is "amnesty", then he will support its adoption by law, in Parliament.

"Nobody has succeeded in answering an essential question: what is the actual solution to all the misfortunes generated by the functioning of those mixed teams, by the issuing, signing of those protocols? Nobody has given an answer to the question as to what we should be doing with the unlawfully obtained evidence that has led to the unlawful conviction of many Romanians, and to many Romanians being in trial or prosecuted on the basis of unlawful and unconstitutional protocols. No one has been able to answer the question of how we can lift the pressure off of judges who have in rem or in personam cases so as to have the guarantee that a magistrate in Romania judges only by his or her own conscience and not due to pressure. If the answer is 'amnesty', then let the Government grant it by ordinance. If the answer is "amnesty by law in Parliament", I support it, but these questions left unanswered will not be able to clear everything that has happened in Romania," said Liviu Dragnea.

According to him, "the horror that the Laws of Justice and the Criminal Codes will be adopted and enforced also comes from the fact that at one point, all those who have done wrong will pay."