President Iohannis says he does not want to enter pact with ruling coalition or other parties

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that he does not want a pact with any political party that attended consultations with him at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, as he just wants to be a mediator for the justice legislation.

"I do not want a pact with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) [major at rule]. I'm not talking about that. I do not know how the idea came about, but I think it has been wrongly understood what is happening here. I want in these consultations to be seen as a mediator, a mediator between parliamentary political parties. I do not want a pact with PSD, or ALDE [Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, minor at rule] or with others. I want them to understand each other, to resume the discussions on the justice laws in a considerably improved form, to finally have laws that really help the Romanian justice system. I think what I could get and hope to get is a political understanding among political parties," said Iohannis.

According to the president, the justice system must be independent and stable, and "sooner or later" consensus will be required in Parliament.

"I want to explain these things to them. Consensus is needed because otherwise these laws will always be altered, will generate instability and will eventually generate a system that does not work optimally. So what we have now are laws that do not function properly. You have noticed that after promulgation, the government has already issued an emergency ordinance," Iohannis said. AGERPRES (RO- author: Catalina Matei, editor: George Onea; EN - author: Corneliu-Aurelian Colceriu, editor: Adina Panaitescu)