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The acts issued by Minister Vasile Blaga over the past two months are perfectly valid, Caretaker Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Friday in Targoviste in relation to a recent decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal (CAB).

‘There is a simple solution at our disposal: first of all, we have to obey the court’s ruling, and secondly, I am convinced it will be challenged by the Presidency. Until then, when the challenge is considered, Minister Blaga will be acting interior minister with a suspended legal capacity,’ said Boc. Boc also said that there will be no replacement in the leadership of the Interior Ministry because of the CAB ruling.

‘Nobody should understand that because of this decision someone else will head the Interior Ministry. The decision of the court is for temporary suspension until the legal capacity of the minister is judged. That means the Interior Ministry will be coordinated, according to its powers, by the incumbent state secretaries on various levels and various powers and the secretary general of the ministry will be the main employer until this situation generated by CAB will have been judged,’ said Boc.

The caretaker prime minister said the CAB decision was ‘odd and unprecedented.’ ‘This is an odd and unprecedented decision in the post-communist constitutional and political history of Romania. It is for the first time that a decision of a court of appeal defeats a decision of the Constitutional Court, the supreme judge in constitutional matters in Romania.
The Constitutional Court last week said loud and clear in response to the same complaint that the revocation of Dan Nica and the appointment of Vasile Blaga as interim minister is constitutional. From this perspective, the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal is odd,’ said Boc.

The CAB magistrates on Friday admitted the request for the annulment of the presidential decree under which Dan Nica was dismissed as interior minister and replaced with Vasile Blaga. The decision can be challenged before the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation.
On October 1, President Traian Basescu signed a decree under which Dan Nica of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) was dismissed as deputy prime minister and minister of administration and interior and replaced by Vasile Blaga of the Democratic-Liberal Party (PD-L) as acting minister.