Referendum topics: ban on amnesty, pardon for corruption crimes, of emergency ordinances in judiciary

President Klaus Iohannis announced he has sent on Thursday to Parliament the topics to be subject to public consultation at the 26 May referendum according to Agerpres.

"I have sent today to Parliament the letter referring to the two topics of national interest that will be subject to public consultation at the referendum on 26 May, alongside the European Parliament election. A first matter: the ban on amnesty and pardon for corruption crimes, and the second matter: the ban on the adoption by the Government of the Emergency Ordinances (OUG) in the field of criminal offenses, punishments and of the judicial organisation correlated to the right of other constitutional authorities to directly notify the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) on the OUGs. These are the two topics to be subject to the people's consultation," the President of Romania said at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.