USR to submit to Constitutional Court certified support signatures for 'No Convicts in Public Office' initiative

"Today, the 'No Convicts' initiative will be referred to the Constitutional Court. We submitted 850,000 support signatures certified by mayor's offices countrywide. In almost 100 localities the mayors refused for various reasons to release the signature lists, and in the context of this unprecedented attack on the rule of law, and as we see that the Prosecutor's Offices are also under extraordinary pressure, in this context where we just saw Liviu Dragnea brushing away the idea that the Special Court for Magistrates could be removed, as per the request of the Venice Commission, we consider it's time to take the 'No Convicts' initiative to the next level," Barna said in Parliament. 

He mentioned having informed President Iohannis and seeking the President's support in this regard, "for the initiative to be put up for a referendum, to enter the parliamentary procedure and a referendum be called thereon." 

According to him, USR will take individual lawsuits against the mayors who have violated the law by refusing to certify the signatures. 

"For all these reasons, we submit today to the Constitutional Court the almost 850,000 signatures in order to push forward the process, and we will take to court, with individual lawsuits, the mayors who, for various reasons, refuse to comply with the law. On top are the counties of Suceava, Neamt and Vrancea, with over five or six localities whose mayors have actually refused to certify the signatures or return the signature lists. This is a blatant and explicit violation of the law on one's own behalf," Dan Barna said.

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