Loading ...The Chamber of Deputies plenary sitting on Wednesday, upon the request of Romania's Prosecutor-general, will debate the request for the start of criminal investigation against deputy Adrian Nastase, in the "Zambaccian II" and "Aunt Tamara" files. The draft resolution on changing the regulations of the Chamber of Deputies was adopted on Tuesday by the plenum of the lower chamber of Parliament by a vote of 177 to 6 and 13 abstentions.
The report on changing the regulations of the Chamber of Deputies in the sense of reducing the majority necessary to start prosecuting the ministers who are also parliamentarians (the prosecution should be approved by the plenum by a simple majority, that is half plus one of the number of deputies present in the room) was presented on Monday in the plenum by the specialist commission.
The report changes Article 155, Paragraph 3 of the regulations of the Chamber of Deputies, which stipulated that the request for prosecuting the members and the former members of the Government who are also parliamentarians, should be adopted by a vote of at least two thirds of the number of deputies. But when notified by the Liberal Democratic Party (PD-L), the Constitutional Court ruled that this stipulation was not in keeping with the fundamental law.
The leaders of the ruling coalition between PD-L and the Social Democratic Party talked on Monday about making the regulation of the Chamber of Deputies agree with the ruling of the Constitutional Court on lifting the parliamentary immunity. Liberal Democrat vice- chairman Gheorghe Flutur said that the PD-L representatives stood their ground and would vote "for sending the files to court." Social democrat deputy Adrian Nastase last month called on the Parliament to send its files to Justice, saying they are the outcome of political harassment and not of crime.
Attending a debate on changing the Constitution, the former prime minister said that the deputies in the legal commission reconfirmed, through their latest decision, what they had previously agreed on, when recommending that the files should not be sent to Court.
The chamber of Deputies Standing Bureau on February 11 decided to submit to the plenary sitting the report drawn up by head of the Legal Commission, Daniel Buda, as regards Nastase's files and a ‘counter-report' signed by the social democrats.
The chamber of Deputies Standing Bureau on February 11 decided to submit to the plenary sitting the report drawn up by head of the Legal Commission, Daniel Buda, as regards Nastase's files and a ‘counter-report' signed by the social democrats.
The Chamber of Deputies' legal commission had decided on February 4 with ten votes in favor and 9 against to draw up a report on not initiating criminal investigation in the two files involving Adrian Nastase. On Jan. 9 Prosecutor-general Laura Codruta Kovesi sent the Chamber of Deputies a letter asking for the plenum to deliver an opinion on the notification of the Prosecution Office to start the criminal probe into the Adrian Nastase case.
On Dec. 10, 2008, the Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies decided to send back to the Prosecution Office the "Zambaccian II" and "Aunt Tamara" files drawn on PSD deputy Adrian Nastase, for new evidence to be collected, on ground that the High Court of Cassation and Justice had declared the material presented to the Law Committee void.
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